"AH Halsey, known to everyone as “Chelly”, was a pre-eminent representative of those scholar-intellectuals who returned from wartime in uniform determined to turn the moral sciences to the service of an egalitarian government and the making of a much better society. Like his old friend, Richard Hoggart, Halsey was born into the respectable and upright poverty of an English working class family in Kentish Town in 1923. His father, a railway worker, moved to the Midlands where, in 1933, his son won a scholarship to Kettering Grammar School, leaving at 16 to become a sanitary inspector’s boy and await the liberation of enlistment as an aircrew cadet. He was trained to fly in Africa, missed active service in the Pacific by a week and, having written a Ministry report on German POW camps, wasn’t demobilised until 1947, when he took the democratic socialism he learned in the RAF to the London School of Economics." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-ah-halsey-acclaimed-sociologist-who-devoted-himself-to-highlighting-inequality-in-society-especially-in-the-field-of-education-9802793.html
