Editing Angus Calder (section)

==Literature and poetry==
Following his success with ''The People's War'', Calder increasingly returned to his interests in [[literature]] and poetry. In 1971, he moved to Edinburgh where he published ''Russia Discovered'', a survey of 19th-century Russian fiction in 1976, and, three years later, became staff tutor in arts with the [[Open University]]. He subsequently taught all over the world, lecturing in literature at several African universities and serving from 1981 to 1987 as co-editor of the ''[[Journal of Commonwealth Literature]]''.<ref name=Independent>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/angus-calder-historian-critic-and-poet-whose-the-peoples-war-challenged-conventional-wisdom-on-wartime-britain-843573.html|title=Angus Calder: Historian, critic and poet whose 'The People's War' challenged conventional wisdom on wartime Britain|newspaper=The Independent|author=Ian Campbell|date=10 June 2008|access-date=17 September 2012}}</ref>

Calder became a ubiquitous figure on the [[Scottish literature|Scottish literary]] scene writing essays and articles, books on [[Byron]] and [[T. S. Eliot]], and working as editor of collections of poetry and prose. He also wrote introductions to new publications of such diverse works as ''[[Great Expectations]]'', [[Walter Scott]]'s ''[[Old Mortality]]'', [[T. E. Lawrence]]'s ''[[Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'', [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s ''[[Sword of Honour]]'' trilogy and [[James Boswell]]'s ''[[The Life of Samuel Johnson]]''.
In 1981 he published ''Revolutionary Empire'' (1981), a study of three centuries of imperial development by English speakers to the end of the 18th century. ''Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic'' is a collection of essays on [[Scottish topics]] which expressed itself through the writings of such figures as [[Robert Burns]] and Scott and in gestures of ''[[realpolitik]]'' such as the repression of "[[Jacobin (politics)|Jacobins]]" during the [[French Revolution]]. In 1984 Calder helped to set up the [[Scottish Poetry Library]] in Edinburgh and served as its first convener. He also worked as an editor of [[Hugh MacDiarmid]]'s prose.<ref name="obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/angus-calder-historian-author-and-poet-1-1172007|title=Angus Calder: Historian, author and poet|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=9 June 2008|access-date=17 September 2012}}</ref> Calder won the [[Eric Gregory Award]] for his poetry.