The Birmingham school was never a single unified school or orthodoxy
Evidence
People talk about “the Birmingham school” [The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham] and all I can hear are the arguments we used to have in Birmingham that we never were one school; there may have been four or five but we were never able to unify it all, nor did we want to create that kind of orthodoxy. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 755
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘the Birmingham school’ actually referred to, rebutting the common unitary framing.