18 Facts About Alan Bullock

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock was a British historian.

Alan Bullock is best known for his book Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which influenced many other Hitler biographies.

Alan Bullock was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1940.

Alan Bullock was the censor of St Catherine's Society and then founding master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, a college for undergraduates and graduates, divided between students of the sciences and the arts.

Alan Bullock was credited with massive fundraising efforts to develop the college.

Alan Bullock served as chairman of the National Advisory Committee on the Training and Supply of Teachers, the Schools' Council, the Committee of Inquiry into Reading and the Use of English, and the Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy.

Alan Bullock became widely known to the general public when he appeared on the informational BBC radio program The Brains Trust.

In 1952, Alan Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which used the recently available transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials, traditional resources, like letters, diaries, speeches and memoirs.

Early in the book, Alan Bullock writes the following about Hitler's formative pre-First World War years in Vienna when he was alone and struggling.

Alan Bullock learned to lie with conviction and dissemble with candour.

Alan Bullock was somewhat swayed by this debate and partially modified his assessment of Hitler.

Alan Bullock believed there are times in which the "Great Man" is decisive.

Alan Bullock wrote that during revolutionary circumstances, "It is possible for an individual to exert a powerful even a decisive influence on the way events develop and the policies that are followed".

Alan Bullock later chaired the committee of inquiry on industrial democracy commissioned in December 1975 by the second Labour government of Harold Wilson.

The committee's report, which was known as the Alan Bullock Report, published in 1977, recommended workers' control in large companies with employees having a right to hold representative worker directorships.

Alan Bullock occasionally appeared on television as a political pundit, for example, during the BBC coverage of the 1959 British general election.

Alan Bullock argued that Stalin's ability to consolidate power in his home country and to not over-extend himself, enabled him to retain power longer than Hitler.

In May 1976, Alan Bullock was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the university.