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The SHF online library is a free resource designed to inform debate, inspire critical thought and encourage public discourse. The Library provides an online space for independent works from the scholars, fellows, artists and writers that we support and collaborate with.

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12th September 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 4: Ajamu & Bernice Mulenga

In episode 4 of Living Archives, Ajamu and Bernice Mulenga bend time reflecting on their respective approaches to photography, intimacy and...

29th August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 3: Roshini Kempadoo & Jacob V Joyce

In the third episode of Living Archives, Roshini Kempadoo and Jacob V Joyce exchange ideas around Stuart Hall’s work and legacy, the...

15th August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 2: Beverley Bennett & Marlene Smith

In episode 2 of Living Archives Beverley Bennett and Marlene Smith discuss their practices in relation to family, collectivity and...

1st August 2023 / Audio

Living Archives Podcast Episode 1: Ingrid Pollard & Rudy Loewe

In this, the first conversation in the Living Archives series, we sit down with Ingrid Pollard and Rudy Loewe to discuss the links between their...

20th June 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 6: 'Abolition in the UK' with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

In the sixth and final episode of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Often dismissed or set aside...

20th June 2023 / Article

A Living Archive – Research Progress

By: Dharma Taylor

20th June 2023 / Article

A Living Archive – Research Progress

By: Dharma Taylor

‘Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at the Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor...

6th June 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 5: 'Queer Class Politics' with Sita Balani

In episode 5 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Sita Balani. They explore the legacies of queer liberation struggles...

23rd May 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 4: 'The Cold War' with Vijay Prashad

In episode 4 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Vijay Prashad. They discuss the legacies of the Cold War from the...

9th May 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 3: 'Identity Politics' with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

In episode 3 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. They discuss how politics moves between the world...

26th April 2023 / Images

6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Jacqueline Rose (photos)

By: Conway Hall

The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed renowned public intellectual Jacqueline Rose for our 6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation at Conway...

25th April 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 2: 'The Politics of Decolonisation' with Françoise Vergès

In episode 2 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Françoise Vergès. They explore the connections and disparities...

11th April 2023 / Audio

Locating Legacies Episode 1: 'On Stuart Hall' with Kojo Koram

In episode 1 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Kojo Koram about Stuart Hall's contributions to radical thought and...

4th April 2023 / Audio

Announcing the Locating Legacies Podcast in Partnership with Pluto Press - Featuring Chris Browne, Gracie Mae Bradley and Orsod Malik

We are excited to announce the Locating Legacies Podcast - a fortnightly podcast created by the Stuart Hall Foundation and co-produced by Pluto...

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Healthcare

The panel discussed the legacies of covid, draw connections between cost of living crisis and healthcare, and the impacts of privatisation on...

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Housing

The panel focused on responses to the cost of living crisis and the housing crisis, impact on low-income communities, and resistance to the...

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Activism

This session focused on the state of queer activism in the UK, coalition building in times of crises, and queer class politics. • Omie Dale,...

28th November 2022 / Video

2022 Racial Inequality in a Time of Crises: Education and Policing

This panel thought through the connections between education and policing, the expansion of prevent, and ideas around alternative curriculums....

30th September 2022 / Images

SHF Autumn Keynote with Arundhati Roy

By: Piers Allardyce/Conway Hall

30th September 2022 / Images

SHF Autumn Keynote with Arundhati Roy

By: Piers Allardyce/Conway Hall

In the twenty-five years since the release of her world-renowned Booker Prize winning novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati Roy has...

15th August 2022 / Video

Building Black Cultural Institutions with Gilane Tawadros, Lisa Anderson, Ian Sergeant, Marlene Smith and Amahra Spence

What is the word ‘Black’ in ‘Black Cultural Institutions’? Why does it seem like there are so few black-led arts organisations in the UK that...

21st June 2022 / Audio

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening by Trevor Mathison (audio)

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening is a 40-minute immersive soundscape from artist Trevor Mathison that offers a re-examination...

21st June 2022 / Images

Special Preview: 'The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening' (photos)

By: Jessica Emovon

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We...

16th June 2022 / Video

The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening, with Trevor Mathison and Aasiya Lodhi

This discussion and performance was part of a special preview of Trevor Mathison’s newly commissioned artwork ‘The Conversation Continues: We...

16th June 2022 / Video

Whose Memorials? with Barby Asante and Shawn Sobers

The state backlash against the mass protests for racial justice in June 2020 is well underway. A reaction punctuated by the recent passing of...

16th June 2022 / Article

Introduction to Special Preview: 'The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening'

By: Becky Hall

On 9th June 2022, the Stuart Hall Foundation hosted Special Preview: 'The Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening', launching Trevor...

14th March 2022 / Video

The Politics of Care with Dharmi Kapadia and Dzifa Afonu

How can we make sense of the concept of ‘care’ in today’s political and economic landscape? After twelve years of austerity, large scale public...

28th February 2022 / Video

Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity (5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation, 3rd February 2022)

5th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation – 'Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity' took place on 3rd February 2022, with speakers...

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

31st January 2022 / Article

Stuart Hall, a Peerless Mediator

By: Gregor McLennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela McRobbie, Brett St Louis, Catherine Hall

the different ways in which Hall articulated his evolving sense of Marxism

18th January 2022 / Video

Frontlines: Land and the Climate Crisis with Abeer Butmeh, Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Sam Siva

Land both contributes and is affected by climate change. It is the frontlines of the climate crisis where livelihoods, resources and inherited...

"we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown"
10th January 2022 / Article

The End of the World is Never the End of Everything

By: Arwa Aburawa

"we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown"
10th January 2022 / Article

The End of the World is Never the End of Everything

By: Arwa Aburawa

we must empower communities on the frontlines of climate breakdown

"We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises"
14th December 2021 / Article

Decolonial Methodologies

By: Ashish Ghadiali

"We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises"
14th December 2021 / Article

Decolonial Methodologies

By: Ashish Ghadiali

We find ourselves at the back of a decade of broken promises

8th December 2021 / Video

Publishing in the Wake of Black Lives Matter with Margaret Busby and Anamik Saha

The Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 produced an unprecedented amount of public statements from corporate media in support of...

"Environmental politics must involve praxis."
1st December 2021 / Article

Praxis: A Graphic Novel

By: Aneesa Khan

"Environmental politics must involve praxis."
1st December 2021 / Article

Praxis: A Graphic Novel

By: Aneesa Khan

Environmental politics must involve praxis.

24th November 2021 / Video

Where is My History?

By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

24th November 2021 / Video

Where is My History?

By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Read during our #ReconstructionWork conversation entitled, 'Can the Museum be Decolonised?' Watch the full conversation here. What can the...

"[...] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up."
17th November 2021 / Article

A Green New Deal for Whom?

By: Dalia Gebrial

"[...] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up."
17th November 2021 / Article

A Green New Deal for Whom?

By: Dalia Gebrial

[...] this is not climate leadership. It’s climate catch-up.

3rd November 2021 / Video

Climate Justice From Below: Race, Class and Climate Crisis with Jhannel Tomlinson and Leon Sealey-Huggins

By: Jhannel Tomlinson & Leon Sealey-Huggins

Our #ReconstructionWork online conversation series continues with another special event with support from Arts Council England. In the global...

26th July 2021 / Video

Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Marxism, an online roundtable

To mark the publication of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, edited by Gregor McLennan, the Stuart Hall Foundation partnered with...