Ronald Buchanan McCallum
Ronald Buchanan McCallum also RB McCallum (born August 28, 1898 - May 18, 1973 ) was a British historian and professor at Oxford .
Life
McCallum was a Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford, where he taught modern history and politics. In 1952 he created the term Psephology ( election research , statistical analysis of elections). He initiated the study the Nuffield series of election studies , an analysis and description of every UK general election since 1945.
McCallum was a member of the " Inklings " association, which included well-known writers and professors such as CS Lewis , JRR Tolkien , Nevill Coghill , Jack Arthur Walter Bennett , Colin Hardie , Owen Barfield and the physician Robert Havard .
Fonts
- RB McCallum: Asquith. (Biography). In: Great Lives Series. Duckworth, London 1936, OCLC 10317096 .
- RB McCallum: How Britain is governed. In: Oxford pamphlets on home affairs. Oxford University Press, London 1943, OCLC 13301636 .
- RB McCallum: England and France, 1939-1943. Oxford University Press, London 1944, OCLC 465980779 .
- RB McCallum: Public Opinion and the Last Peace. Oxford University Press, London 1944, OCLC 2211946 .
- RB McCallum, Alison Readman: The British General Election of 1945. Oxford University Press, London 1947, OCLC 3094213 .
- RB McCallum: The Liberal Party from Earl Gray to Asquith. In the series: Men and Ideas. V. Gollancz, London 1963, OCLC 769611 .
- German
- RB McCallum: World peace and public opinion after 1919. Suhrkamp, Berlin 1948, DNB 453124089 . (OT: Public Opinion and the last peace. Translated by Ernst Fürstenau).
literature
- George Herbert Gunn: The continuing friendship of James William Fulbright and Ronald Buchanan McCallum. Duke University Press, Durham, NC 1984, OCLC 52475513 .
- David Bratman: RB McCallum: the master Inkling. In: Mythlore. Volume 23, No. 3. Mythopoeic Society, Altadena, CA 2001, OCLC 48904174 .
- Humphrey Carpenter : JRR Tolkien. A biography. Klett Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-93431-6 , p. 141.
Web links
- McCallum, Ronald Buchanan on worldcat.org (list of publications)
- 1958 portrait of Robin Darwin Ronald Buchanan McCallum (1898–1973) on bbc.co.uk (in the collection of Pembroke College, University of Oxford).
Individual evidence
- ↑ psephology on politicaldictionary.com
- ↑ Report by David Butler on annualreviews.org doi : 10.1146 / annurev.polisci.1.1.451
- ↑ About the Inklings. on mythsoc.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCallum, Ronald Buchanan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCallum, RB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1898 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1973 |