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Bernard Crick 1929-2008
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Dec 23, 2008 05:43am |
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| Category | Obituary |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bernard Crick, who died today, was one of those rare public intellectuals who wanted not just to understand the world but to change it for the better. One of the great political essayists of his generation, he addressed himself to the general reader and the active citizen. He was one of the longest serving editors of The Political Quarterly and in the 1990s he launched the Orwell Prize, which has become the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. He held academic posts at the LSE, Sheffield and Birkbeck and his books included the classic In Defence of Politics, and his biography of George Orwell.
He described himself as a lifelong gadfly, and was a social and civic entrepreneur in the same mould as Michael Young. He helped launch many new institutions, such as the Politics Association for teachers of politics in schools, and the Association for Citizenship Teaching. David Blunkett, whom Crick had taught at Sheffield, first appointed him to chair the advisory group on the Teaching of Citizenship and Democracy in Schools in 1997, and then asked him to oversee its implementation.
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