Richard Crossman Building

This was built in 1971 and is named after the political journalist and Labour politician Richard Crossman, who represented Coventry East from 1945 to 1974. It is used by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, primarily for psychology, criminology and social sciences subjects, and includes mock prison cells and psychology labs.

Richard Crossman OBE – was born in December 1907. He was a British Labour Party politician and became an MP in 1945. He was chairman of the Labour Party in 1960-61. Crossman is best known for his controversial diaries which revealed the inner-workings of government and which have subsequently inspired the production of other political diaries, as well as the BBC Television series ‘Yes Minister’. Dick, as he was known by close friends and family, was everything from a poet and journalist, Labour politician, diarist, and broadcaster. He was one of those men whose interests were extensively broad and diverse, ranging from politics and theology, to sports, poetry, theatre and opera.