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Bibliography
The project for a bibliography that would capture the breadth and depth of Stuart Hall’s work was initiated by
Catherine Hall and Bill Schwarz in the wake of Stuart’s death in 2014. I was honoured to be invited by them to
prepare the bibliography—initially with a view to including this with the volumes of Hall’s work, published by Duke
University Press under their general editorship. I began work on the bibliography in April 2014 and it was largely
completed by November of that year. By then it was clear that the scale of the bibliography, and its utility for
anyone working with Hall’s ideas, mitigated against publication in its full form. In discussion, Catherine, Bill and I
agreed that publication in the most open and accessible form possible was desirable. Larry Grossberg suggested
that the bibliography should be released online, through the Stuart Hall Foundation. We hope that this can
become a fully serviceable, online resource for all those who are interested in Hall’s prolific output.

The following bibliography substantially adds to any previously published. I have included all the publicly available
material that I could find, using the British Library, London; the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Archive,
Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham; UNESCO Digital Archive, Paris; BBC Genome, online; the
Raphael Samuel Archive, Bishopsgate Institute, London; and Stuart Hall’s private papers. As a result, the full scope
of Hall’s writings can be seen for the first time—including poetry, short fiction, interviews, journalism, literary
criticism and much else—spanning 60 years of continuous production.

As well as expected political, cultural, and academic writing, I have tried to capture Hall’s teaching material, radio
and television broadcasts, major public lectures and seminars, and contributions to public enquiries. It is harder to
trace and confirm such sources, but most, if not all, public broadcast and Open University material has, I believe,
now been listed in this bibliography. Initially, it had been hoped that the bibliography would include works in
translation. However, the sheer quantity of material, the number of languages, many of which required language
skills far beyond my scope, and co-ordination of activity beyond the resources available at present, mean that the
present bibliography, though it includes some material in foreign language, primarily restricts itself to English
language publications. It is hoped that those working in other languages will be able to develop their own
bibliographies, and perhaps share these with the Foundation in the future. These would include Arabic, Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (and Cantonese), Portuguese (and
Brazilian Portuguese), and Swedish—to name only those languages into which I know Hall’s work has been
translated.

Apart from the absence of foreign language publications, there are, doubtless, gaps in the bibliography as it stands.
I have not included any material post-2015. The number of interviews, edited and selected writings, previously
unpublished lectures and manuscripts published in the past two years alone, will have to be accounted for at a later
date. Doubtless there are errors too. I hope that these have at least been kept to a minimum. I have, were
possible, verified by checking against original printed copy. Sometimes entries have proved elusive—where
information is missing, or only a digital copy, or bibliographic reference found, that entry is given in red. Any

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information that users of the bibliography can provide, corrections, additions, and so on, are welcomed and
sought. Please contact the Foundation at admin@stuarthallfoundation.org.

The material is presented in strictly chronological order rather than categorised and distinguished between the
‘academic’, ‘teaching’ and ‘public’ works. Such distinctions would be so anathema to Hall’s own motivations as to
be perverse. But I also hope that it might be useful for contemporary students, researchers and political activists
who examine the bibliography, to discover how concerns first articulated by Hall in one public sphere or medium
—whether that be a student journal, radio broadcast, academic article, or exhibition catalogue entry—were
subsequently transposed into another. For that reason also, the substantial history of reprints—whether edited
and/or extended—of key works has been recorded. It is hoped that these will stimulate interest in why certain
concepts, arguments, and interests originally raised by Hall in, say, the late 1950s, or mid-1970s, resonated so
profoundly in other periods. Users of the bibliography are invited to consider Hall’s work in the conjunctural
terms he proposed.

A bibliography performs as a technology of attribution and location—it ascribes those works, of that time and
place, to ‘Stuart Hall’. But the nature of Hall’s work, both in its procedures and in its consequences, presents a
challenge to such a technology. In the most simple and immediate sense Hall’s practice was profoundly
collaborative—the most frequent word to occur in the bibliography is ‘with’. And the works emerge from, and
address, a socialist political project concerned with the formation of constituencies of difference. As Hall
consistently demonstrated, such a political project strikes at the heart of so many assumptions about ‘who we
are’—critiquing the implicit structures of those three terms, and the structure and function of ‘authorship’. Hall, as
a public intellectual, was an interlocutor who addressed his co-authors, critics, readers, students, and targets on
the terrain that they had set. It hardly needs saying, but the bibliography itself can only provide signposts to those
addressees and terrains and just as often blurs or disguises what the writings and broadcasts focus and reveal.

A final, personal, note. This bibliography was produced in a process of mourning—Lord knows, it probably acted
as such too. Hall’s family, close friends, former colleagues and students, and even some perfect strangers, have
provided crucial details, corrections, and information. My thanks go to all of them. In particular, the bibliography is
indebted to the work of David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, who published a working bibliography in Stuart Hall:
Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies; the support of John Akomfrah, who provided much of the information on
audio-visual broadcasts that the bibliography presents; Larry Grossberg, who provided an extended database; and
the ongoing oversight and care of Bill and Catherine.

Nick Beech

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