1. Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public".
16 Facts About Bernard Crick
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Bernard Crick read Economics at University College London, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree, before transferring to the London School of Economics for doctoral study.
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Bernard Crick was an advisor to British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock during the 1980s.
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When Labour came to power in 1997, Bernard Crick was appointed by his former student David Blunkett to head up an advisory group on citizenship education.
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The group's final report in 1998, known as the Bernard Crick Report, led to the introduction of citizenship as a core subject in the National Curriculum.
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Bernard Crick was knighted in the 2002 new years honours list for "services to citizenship in schools and to political studies".
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Bernard Crick authored the 2004 Home Office book Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship, which forms the basis for the new citizenship test required by all people naturalising as British citizens.
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Bernard Crick co-authored, with David Millar, an influential pamphlet entitled Making Scotland's Parliament Work.
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Later in his life in Scotland, Bernard Crick was delighted to be appointed Stevenson Visiting Professor at Glasgow University.
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Bernard Crick made many other contributions to Scottish political life, from participating in his local Labour Party, to defending Glenogle Baths from closure, to, in his last weeks of life, penning a humorous Op-Ed for The Scotsman on the chaos caused by the tram line delays in Edinburgh.
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Bernard Crick died from prostate cancer at the age of 79, in St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh.
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In 1974, Bernard Crick began working on a biography of George Orwell with the help of Orwell's second wife Sonia Brownell.
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In 2017, the Orwell Foundation and the Sir Bernard Crick Centre re-established a new Orwell Lecture in the North at the University of Sheffield: the inaugural lecture was given by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.
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In 1993, Bernard Crick established the Orwell Prize with sponsorship from The Political Quarterly to honour political writing.
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Bernard Crick was on the judging panel until the 2007 awards.
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In 2008, Bernard Crick became active in supporting "Orwell Direct", a website dedicated to the life and works of Orwell created by Dione Venables, which later became The Orwell Society.