Victor Edward Neuburg (8 March 1924 – January 1996) was a

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. Neuburg was born in Steyning,

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, the son of Victor Benjamin Neuburg and his wife Kathleen Rose Goddard. He was educated at the

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where he received the degree of Master of Education in 1967.Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1972 – present, American Antiquarian Society. Updated 1997. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
/ref> He was Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in the School of Librarianship North-Western Polytechnic/Polytechnic of North London. He was general editor of the Woburn Press series of reprints ''The Social History of Education''. In the year 1984/5 he was Samuel Foster Haven Fellow of the

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. His Fellowship publication was 'Chapbooks in America', in Cathy N. Davidson, ed., ''Reading in America'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989) Neuburg married Hannah 'Anne' Hilsum (1919-2000) in 1944. They had a daughter, Caroline Neuburg, in 1948, who in turn married Brian Robertson in 1973, with whom she had daughters Katherine and Alison.Victor E. Neuburg, ''The Popular Press companion to popular literature'' (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983, p. 6.

Publications

John Buchan John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career ...

, ''A history of the First World War'', abridged and introduced by Victor Neuberg (Moffat: Lochar, 1991) *Victor Neuburg, ''Gone for a soldier: a history of life in the British ranks since 1660'' (London: Cassell, 1989) *Victor E. Neuburg, 'Chapbooks in America', in Cathy N. Davidson, ed., ''Reading in America'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989) *Victor Neuburg, ''A guide to the Western Front: a companion for travellers'' (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988) *

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

, ''A December vision: his social journalism'', edited by Neil Philip and Victor Neuburg (London: Collins, 1986) * Henry Mayhew, '' London labour and the London poor'', selections made and introduced by Victor Neuburg (Penguin classics, 3241; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''The Popular Press companion to popular literature'' (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983 *''Vickybird: a memoir of Victor B. Neuburg'', by his son Victor E. Neuburg (London: Polytechnic of North London, 1983) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''The Batsford companion to popular literature'' (London: Batsford Academic and Educational, 1982) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''History hunter'', illustrated by Trevor Ridley (London: Beaver Books, 1979) *'' Thomas Frognall Dibdin: selections'', compiled and introduced by Victor E. Neuburg (Great bibliographers series, no. 3; Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''Popular literature: a history and guide, from the beginning of printing to the year 1897'' (London: Woburn, 1977; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''

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s: a guide to reference material on English, Scottish and American

chapbook A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookle ...

literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'' (2nd edn., London: Woburn Press, 1972) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''The past we see today'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1972) *''Literacy and society'', edited with a new introduction by Victor E. Neuburg (The social history of education, second series, no. 5; London: Woburn Press, 1971) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''Popular education in eighteenth century England'' (London: Woburn Press, 1971) *Edwin Pearson, '' Banbury chap books and nursery toy book literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'', new foreword by Victor Neuburg (Welwyn Garden City: Seven Dials Press, 1970)
Victor E. Neuburg, 'Popular Education and Literacy', ''Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter'', no. 4 (Spring 1970), pp. 51-5Victor E. Neuburg, 'Literacy in eighteenth century England: a caveat', ''Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter'', no. 2 (Spring 1969), pp. 44-6
*Victor E. Neuburg, ''The penny histories: a study of

s for young readers over two centuries'', illustrated with facsimiles of seven

s (The Juvenile Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1968) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''Points & pitfalls: a first notebook in French composition'' (n.p.: University Tutorial Press, 1965) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''Points and pitfalls: a first notebook in German composition'' (n.p.: University Tutorial Press, 1965) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''

s: a bibliography of references to English and American

literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'' (London: Vine Press, 1964) *Victor E. Neuburg, ''A select handlist of references to

literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'' (Edinburgh: privately printed by J. A. Birkbeck, 1952)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Neuburg, Victor E. 1924 births 1996 deaths Academics of the University of North London British literary critics Literary critics of English English folklorists Local historians of England Charles Dickens English educational theorists English Jews English librarians Intellectual historians Jewish historians Historians of World War I English military historians British social historians Alumni of the University of Leicester 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English poets 20th-century English historians