Richard Hoggart (1968-1969)

Richard Hoggart was director and co-founder with Stuart Hall of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. After the Second World War, which interrupted his graduate research, he joined a generation of British thinkers who were part of the postwar explosion in education. He pioneered the field of cultural studies. His influential book The Uses of Literacy (1956) studied the influence of mass culture on the lives of the British urban working class in the years after the Second World War.