Short answers, pulled from the story.
Raymond Henry Williams was born on the 31st of August 1921 in Pandy, a small village just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney near Abergavenny. He grew up in a community where every railway worker voted Labour while local farmers mostly supported the Liberal Party.
Raymond Williams served as an officer in the Anti-Tank Regiment of the Guards Armoured Division from 1941 until 1945. He participated in early fighting during the Invasion of Normandy following D-Day landings and commanded a unit of four tanks.
Culture and Society published in 1958 is the text within which Raymond Williams coined the term structure of feeling describing how cultural experiences shape social consciousness. The Long Revolution followed in 1961 expanding these ideas further.
An extended version containing notes and short essays on one hundred ten words appeared as Keywords published in 1976. Words examined included aesthetic bourgeois culture hegemony isms organic romantic status violence and work.
Raymond Williams died in 1988 while working on People of the Black Mountains experimental historical novel about people living around Black Mountains. Story began in Paleolithic period would have extended to modern times focusing on ordinary people though completed only to Middle Ages before death.