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Encyclopedia > Alan Bullock

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (December 13, 1914 - February 2, 2004), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works. is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

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Bullock was born near Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England, where his father worked as a gardener and a Unitarian preacher. He won a scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied classics and modern history. After graduating in 1938, he worked as a research assistant for Winston Churchill, who was writing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples. During World War II Bullock worked for the European Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. After the war he returned to Oxford as a history fellow at New College. For other places with the same name, see Trowbridge (disambiguation). ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Churchill redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... and of the New College College name New College of St Mary Latin name Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister college Kings College, Cambridge Warden Prof. ...


He was the founding master of St. Catherine's College, a college for undergraduates and graduates, divided between students of the sciences and the arts. He was credited with massive fundraising efforts to develop the college. Later he was the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. Full name St Catherines College Motto Nova et Vetera The New and the Old Named after Previous names St. ...


In 1952 Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Hitler, which he based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials. This book dominated Hitler scholarship for many years. The book characterised Hitler as an opportunistic "power politician". In Bullock's opinion, Hitler was an “mountebank”, an opportunistic adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples whose actions throughout his career were motivated only by a lust for power. Bullock's views led to a debate with Hugh Trevor-Roper in the 1950s who argued that Hitler did possess beliefs, albeit repulsive ones and that Hitler's actions were motivated by them. Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that "Bullock's famous maxim 'Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue' has stood the test of time."[1] Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the 1947 Soviet film about the trials, see Nuremberg Trials (film). ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 – January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of Early Modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ...


When reviewing "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" in The Times in 1991, John Campbell wrote "Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement." The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...


Later, Bullock to some extent changed his mind about Hitler. His later works show Hitler as much more of an ideologue, who pursued the ideas expressed in Mein Kampf (and elsewhere) despite their consequences. This has become a widely accepted view of Hitler, particularly in relation to the Holocaust. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ...


Among Bullock's other works were The Humanist Tradition in the West (1985), and The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, a three-volume biography of British Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who had a similar background to Bullock. He was also editor of The Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought (1977), a project he suggested to the publisher when he found he could not define the word "hermeneutics". The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. ... Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. ...


In the mid-70s Bullock used his committee skills to produce a report which proved to be influential in the classroom, about reading and the teaching of English A Language for Life was published in 1975[1]. A Language for Life, better known as the Bullock Report, was a UK government report published in 1975 by an independent committee, chaired by Alan Bullock, set up by the government to consider the teaching of language. ...


Bullock was a life-long supporter of Labour and his moderate socialist views influenced his historical works. In the 1970s he served on a commission appointed by a Labour government on worker participation in company management. The resulting report received some support but also some trade union opposition. It was never implemented. Workers control is participation in the management of factories and other enterprises by the people who work there. ... The Bullock Report was a report proposing for a form of worker participation or workers control, named for Alan Bullock. ...


Late in his life Bullock published Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1991), a massive work which compared them and also the lives of Bullock's generation. He showed how Hitler and Stalin's careers to some extent fed off each other.


American historian Ronald Spector, writing in The Washington Post, praised Bullock's ability to write about the development of Nazism and Soviet Communism without either generalization or excruciating detail. "The writing is invariably interesting and informed and there are new insights and cogent analysis in every chapter," he wrote. The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ...


Bullock was knighted in 1972, becoming Sir Alan Bullock and in 1976 was made a life peer as Baron Bullock, of Leafield in the County of Oxfordshire. His writings always appeared under the name "Alan Bullock." Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...


Alan Bullock has been quoted as saying : "Oxford is full of ugly people. St Catz will change that, and show the world that cleverness and beauty go hand in hand." (1962). Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


See also

  • List of Apes

References

- *Rosenbaum, Ron Explaining Hitler : the search for the origins of his evil New York : Random House, 1998 ISBN 0679431519. Ron Rosenbaum (born on November 27, 1946, New York, New York) is an American journalist and author. ...


Endnotes

  1. ^ a b Frankland, Mark. Lord Bullock of Leafield, The Guardian. 3 February 2004.

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Veronica Sì, Vittoria Non. Notes on the Poetry of Veronica Gambara (1659 words)
Bullock cites the presence of "Vinca gli sdegni" with another sonnet known to be by Colonna (from 15 other manuscripts), Vergina pura, che dai raggi ardenti" ("Lovely virgin, so innocent, happy").
Bullock simply dismisses another manuscript which contains 4 other poems by Veronica Gambara along with "Vinca gli sdegni", with the argument the placement is erroneous and an Italian article misread "Vinca gli sdegni" as by Veronica when the preposition meant to her.
Bullock begins by telling the reader what an arduous task is an edition of Vittoria Colonna as her work occurs in 53 manuscripts dedicated mostly to her, and in miscellaneous collections numbering more than 340.
Obituary the Lord Bullock (3350 words)
Bullock was a Wolfson Trustee; a director of the Observer; chairman of the Research Committee of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; chairman of the Friends of the Ashmolean, and of the Tate Trustees.
Alan Bullock was born in Bradford on 13 December 1914 and was educated at Bradford Grammar School.
Alan Bullock regularly appeared on radio and television broadcasts, and was a regular on the radio Brains Trust in the immediate post-war years.
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