Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-British academic, writer and cultural studies pioneer, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932 and died in London aged 82 in February 2014.

Stuart Hall was a Rhodes scholar at Merton College, Oxford, Director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Open University. He presented a number of television programmes including the BBC series Redemption Songs and many broadcasts for the Open University.

He was the President of the British Sociological Association and a member of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. He also chaired the arts organisations Iniva and Autograph ABP.

Stuart Hall was the first editor of New Left Review, a founding editor of the journal Soundings and author of many articles and books on politics and culture including Policing the Crisis and ‘The Great Moving Right Show’ (for Marxism Today), in which he famously coined the term ‘Thatcherism’.

A memoir by Stuart Hall Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands (Allen Lane/ Duke University Press and Penguin), and a collection of Stuart Hall’s political essays Selected Political Writings. The Great Moving Right Show and other essays (Lawrence and Wishart) were published in 2017.