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In: Connell , K & Hilton , M 2015 , ' The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies ' , Social History , vol. 40 , no. 3 , pp. 287-311 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2015.1043191
This article offers a history of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Based on extensive interviews with former members and on research into a new archive of the Centre, housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, it argues that cultural studies as practised in the 1970s was always a heterogeneous subject. The CCCS was heavily influenced by the events of 1968 when it tried to develop a new type of radical and collaborative research and teaching agenda. Despite Stuart Hall's efforts to impose a focused link between politics and academic practice, the agenda soon gave way to a series of diverse and fruitful initiatives associated with the 'sub-groups' model of research.