A Sort of Clowning Life and Times, Volume 2: 1940-59
The first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds. This books opens in 1940, when he joned the Royal wartime Britain is evoked, as is active service in North Africa and Italy. Back in England in 1946, Hoggart went on to teach in the extra-mural department of Hull University, travelling all over north-east England. He was also beginning to make his mark as a writer. His study of W.H. Auden was followed by The Uses of Literacy .