ABSTRACT
Richard Hoggart is a principal founder of British cultural studies, perhaps the most important pioneer in carving out a space for the subject on the university curriculum, albeit modestly at the postgraduate level. He is barely remembered in the field these days and little honoured in consequence. In his late eighties, Hoggart is still writing and publishing – recently at the rate of a book a year: Everyday Life and Everyday Language (2003), Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (2004) and Promises to Keep: Thoughts In Old Age (2005). Yet, he is now a yesterday’s man, a figure, most memorably, of the Swinging Sixties, although he entered the public arena to considerable acclaim in the previous decade: the Forgotten Fifties.
