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Notes and references

Preface

1 There is as yet no detailed or accredited history of the Centre’s inauguration and
development. The best source is probably the series of Annual Reports issued each
year which, in addition to charting important developments, also give a detailed
account of seminar groups, research topics, etc.
2 Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (Penguin Books 1958).
3 The Centre was made independent and given a base, in the Faculty of Arts, to
develop its own line of work following a Faculty of Arts Working Paper in 1972.
4 The most important single area of growth is in the Communications Studies and
Cultural Studies degree courses in polytechnics, under the aegis of the CNAA. But
Cultural Studies approaches are now to be found in many university courses and
curricula, and in English, Media and Social Studies courses in further education
and in schools. The term itself has gained wide currency.
5 Nine issues of WPCS were published independently before the journal was
absorbed into the CCCS/Hutchinson series. Stencilled Papers are still published by
and available from the Centre: the list includes over sixty titles.
6 To date the following titles have been published by Hutchinson: Resistance
Through Rituals, On Ideology, Women Take Issue, Working Class Culture.
7 Paul Willis’s work on the transition of working-class boys from school to work is
reported in Learning to Labour (Saxon House 1977). The SSRC and Birmingham
University are currently supporting a follow-up project on young manual workers.
An SSRC project on ‘Women, work and the family’ is also being undertaken by
Christine Griffin.
8 Working Class Culture is a volume of historical essays on this theme, edited by
R.Johnson, J.Clarke and C.Critcher. The work of the Education Group will shortly
appear in Unpopular Education: Education and social democracy since 1944. The
History Group are currently preparing a special number on problems of ‘history
and theory’. A number of studies on aspects of the state in the 1880s-1920s period
are to be drawn together in a volume on ‘Citizenship and the interventionist state’.
9 For a guide to the new kinds of work which have made this break possible, see the
selected bibliography to the English Studies section, below, pages 269–75.
10 The growing importance of historical work is evidenced not only in the work of the
Cultural History Group, but also in an increasingly historical dimension to all our