Editing Angus Calder (section)

{{short description|Scottish writer and historian}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Angus Calder
| image = Angus Calder.png
| caption = Angus Calder, pictured {{circa|2005}}
| birth_name = Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder
| birth_date = {{birth_date|1942|2|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|6|5|1942|2|5|df=y}}
| death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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| nationality = Scottish 
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| alma mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]]<br/>[[University of Sussex]]
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| occupation = Academic
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| parents = [[Peter Ritchie Calder]]<br/>Mabel Jane Forbes McKail
| relatives = [[Nigel Calder]] <small>(brother)</small><br/>[[Simon Calder]] <small>(nephew)</small>
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'''Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder''' (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish writer, historian, and poet. Initially studying English literature, he became interested in [[political history]] and wrote a landmark study on Britain during the [[Second World War]] in 1969 entitled ''The People's War''. He subsequently wrote several other historical works but turned to literature and poetry and worked primarily as a writer, though often holding a number of university teaching positions. A [[socialist]], he was a prominent Scottish [[public intellectual]] during the 1970s and 1980s.