Eric Clare MidwinterOBE, (born February 1932) is an English author, broadcaster and academic. He is a consumer advocate, a social policy analyst, a historian of the sport of cricket and an expert on British comedy.
Life and career
Eric Midwinter was born in Sale, Lancashire, in 1932, and was educated at a local grammar school and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read history.[1] Between 1968 and 1971 he led the team for action research in the Liverpool Education Priority Area. Between 1972 and 1975, as Principal of the Liverpool Teachers’ Centre, he established an organisational structure capable of delivering continuing professional development to all teachers in Liverpool. He was Chairman of the London Regional Passengers Committee, the government-appointed watchdog for public transport, from 1984 to 1996. He was Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing from 1980 to 1991, when the centre was developing its role as a policy institute, and is now its chairman. He was Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Exeter from 1992 to 2001.
A social historian and social policy analyst, he is a co-founder of the University of the Third Age[2] and has been consultant to the Millennium Debate of the Age project and to the International Longevity Centre UK. He has been Chairman of the Health and Social Welfare Board of the Open University, which awarded to him an Honorary Doctorate, and he was a member of the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age Committee. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Disabled and Elderly People and, for five years, a member of the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability. He completed a European Commission study, under the auspices of Age Concern England, into the feasibility of a Senior Euro-pass. Until 2008, he was Chairman of the Community Education Development Centre, Coventry.
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structure capable of delivering continuing professional development to all teachers in Liverpool He was Chairman of the London Regional Passengers Committee the government appointed watchdog for public transport from 1984 to 1996 He was Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing from 1980 to 1991 when the centre was developing its role as a policy institute and is now its chairman He was Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Exeter from 1992 to 2001 A social historian and social policy analyst he is a co founder of the University of the Third Age 2 and has been consultant to the Millennium Debate of the Age project and to the International Longevity Centre UK He has been Chairman of the Health and Social Welfare Board of the Open University which awarded to him an Honorary Doctorate and he was a member of the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age Committee He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Disabled and Elderly People and for five years a member of the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability He completed a European Commission study under the auspices of Age Concern England into the feasibility of a Senior Euro pass Until 2008 he was Chairman of the Community Education Development Centre Coventry A cricket historian he was for seven years President of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and is a biographer of W G Grace Midwinter won The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year award in 2005 for Red Shirts and Roses 3 and the Wisden Book of the Year award in 2011 for The Cricketer s Progress Meadowland to Mumbai 4 He was for several years editor of the MCC Annual and he has prepared many notices of the lives of cricketers and comedians for the old and new Dictionary of National Biography He is also an expert on British comedy through for instance his books Make em Laugh Famous Comedians and their Worlds and The People s Jesters British Comedians in the 20th Century He and his wife Margaret live in Harpenden Hertfordshire 5 Bibliography EditSocial Administration in Lancashire 1830 60 Poor Law Public Health and Police 1966 Law and Order in Early Victorian Lancashire 1968 Victorian Social Reform 1968 Nineteenth Century Education 1970 Old Liverpool 1971 Priority Education An Account of the Liverpool Project 1972 Projections and Social Environment and the Urban School 1972 Patterns of Community Education 1973 Preschool Priorities 1974 Education and the Community 1975 Education for Sale 1977 Make em Laugh Famous Comedians and Their Worlds 1979 Schools in Society The Evolution of English Education 1980 W G Grace His Life and Times 1981 Age is Opportunity Education and Older People 1982 Ten Million People 1982 Mutual Aid Universities 1984 The Wage of Retirement The Case for a New Pensions Policy 1985 Fair Game Myth and Reality in Sport 1986 Caring for Cash The Issue of Private Domiciliary Care 1986 The Lost Seasons Cricket in Wartime 1939 45 1987 Polls Apart Older Voters and the 1987 General Election 1987 with Susan Tester New Design for Old Function Style and Older People 1988 Red Roses Crest the Caps Story of Lancashire County Cricket Club 1989 Creating Chances Arts by Older People 1990 The Old Order Crime and Older People 1990 Brylcreem Summer The 1947 Cricket Season 1991 The Illustrated History of County Cricket 1992 Citizenship From Ageism to Participation 1992 Get Staffed A Report to the London Regional Passengers Committee on the Destaffing of British Rail s London Area Stations 1992 A Voyage of Rediscovery A Guide to Writing Your Life Story 1993 The Rhubarb People A Childhood Memoir of Manchester in the 30s 1993 The Development of Social Welfare in Britain 1994 Darling Old Oval A History of 150 Years of Surrey Cricket at the Oval 1845 1995 1995 Pensioned Off Retirement and Income Examined 1997 Yesterdays The Way We Were 1919 1939 1998 Yesterdays Our Finest Hours 1939 1953 2001 Quill on Willow Cricket in Literature 2001 Best Remembered A Hundred Stars of Yesteryear 2002 As One Stage Door Closes The Story of John Wade Jobbing Conjuror 2002 Novel Approaches A Guide to the Popular Classic Novel 2003 500 Beacons The U3A Story 2004 Red Shirts and Roses The Tale of the Two Old Traffords 2005 The People s Jesters British Comedians in the 20th Century 2006 Salisbury 2006 Parish to Planet How Football Came to Rule the World 2007 George Duckworth Warrington s Ambassador at Large 2007 I Say I Say I Say The Double Act Story 2009 The Cricketer s Progress Meadowland to Mumbai 2010 Cricket Lore The Guide 2014 Class Peace An Analysis of Social Status and English Cricket 1846 1962 2017 Cricket s Four Epochs How Cricket Reflects Civil Society 2021 The 2015 book Variety is the Spice of Life The Worlds of Eric Midwinter is an appreciation of his life and work 1 References Edit a b Variety is the Spice of Life The Worlds of Eric Midwinter Third Age Press Retrieved 10 July 2018 Welcome to the U3A History Page u3asites org au Retrieved 10 July 2018 The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year The Cricket Society Retrieved 10 July 2018 Wisden 2011 p 139 Le Marquand Philippa Winter 2013 U3A the most successful pioneer enterprise in education since World War II PDF Agematters 12 13 Retrieved 10 July 2018 Portals United Kingdom Biography Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eric Midwinter amp oldid 1139185242, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
