The Stuart Hall Project

Stuart Hall has been a recurring figure in our 1968 research, encouraging his students to photograph the city around them, narrating the radio version of Asian Teenagers and involved in the occupation of Birmingham University.

This absorbing portrait by John Akomfrah (Handsworth Songs) was made shortly before Hall’s death in 2014 and follows his singular journey from the Caribbean to New Left Review to cultural studies and then on to the Open University. The film will be preceded by a short selection of newly digitised 1968 material from the Media Archive for Central England.