THE HISTORY MAN
The History Man is a campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury published in 1975. His best-known novel, it is a satire of academic life in the “glass and steel” universities, the ones established in the 1960s which followed the “redbricks“. In 1981 the book was made into a successful BBC television serial.
The New Zealander Ian Carter was so outraged by the book’s portrait of sociology and sociologists that he was inspired to write Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post War Years, a sociological examination of British academic novels.[citation needed]