biography
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Bullock, Alan (Louis Charles) Bullock, Baron
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| lived:
| (1914– )
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| biography:
| British historian. He studied at Oxford, was appointed censor of St Catherine's Society, Oxford (1952–62), and became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1969–73), and Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford (1960–80). He was chairman of the Schools Council (1966–9), and also of the Committee on Reading and Other Uses of the English Language (1972–4), the ‘Bullock Report’ being published as A Language for Life in 1975. He is also the author of numerous works on 20th-c Europe, including studies of Hitler, Bevin, and Stalin, and co-edited (with Oliver Stallybrass) the Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1977). He was made a peer in 1976. |
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