Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

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 Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks, recordings and videos has been launched.The Jamaica-born sociologist and seminal figure in postwar Black British history died in 2014 aged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