Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Source: The Guardian ·
Wife of Jamaica-born sociologist says project celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ he made to Britain’s cultureWhether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman, Stuart Hall was a public intellectual famed for defining the times. Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks, recordings and videos has been launched.The Jamaica-born sociologist…
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Whether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman, Stuart Hall was a public intellectual famed for defining the times. Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks, recordings and videos has been launched. The Jamaica-born sociologist and seminal figure in postwar Black British history died in 2014 aged 82, with his obituary in the Guardian saying he was “among the first to identify key questions of the age”. Hall coined the term Thatcherism and in 1985 warned of the dangers of “authoritarian populism”. The University of Birmingham, where Hall developed the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, has digitised and released more than 3,100 items donated by his widow, the historian Catherine Hall. They include notebooks, index cards, his abandoned doctoral thesis and hours of previously inaccessible audio and video tracing the evolution of cultural studies, all within an interactive database. Also released are his “Origins of the new…
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