Editing Angus Calder (section)

==Politics==
A nationalist and socialist, he moved from the [[Scottish National Party]] (SNP) to the [[Scottish Socialist Party]], and though he cherished the [[Scottish republican]] spirit, he sought to challenge some of the popular myths surrounding the country's sense of national identity. In ''Revolving Culture: Notes from a Scottish republic'' (1992) he described the development, during the early stages of the [[Union with England]], of an "intellectual republic" forged by a combination of insularity and lack of English interest in Scottish affairs.<ref name="obit"/> In 1997 he edited ''Time to Kill – the Soldier's Experience of War in the West 1939–1945'' with [[Paul Addison]]; ''Scotlands of the Mind'' (2002); ''Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation'' (2004); and ''Gods, Mongrels and Demons: 101 Brief but Essential Lives'' (2004), a collection of potted biographies of "creatures who have extended my sense of the potentialities, both comic and tragic, of human nature". He had always published verse and won a Gregory Award for his poetry in 1967. Questions of [[Scottish national identity]] assumed growing importance in the 1980s, and Calder became active in the debate. A distinctive "Scottish social ethos" informed the activities of prominent Scots in the years of Empire, when they had invested heavily in the concept of [[Britishness]], although he reportedly felt that the Scots had meddled much more overweeningly with the English sense of identity than the English ever did with the Scots. He was delighted to discover that the game of [[cricket]] had [[Cricket in Sri Lanka|been introduced to Sri Lanka]] by a Scot.<ref name="Telegraph Obit">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2119621/Angus-Calder.html | title=Obituaries: Angus Calder | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=12 June 2008 | access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref>