University of Birmingham

…and research establishment at the University of Birmingham, England, that contributed to the beginnings of the field of cultural studies. Established initially as a postgraduate center in 1964 to promote academic scholarship on the neglected subject of contemporary mass culture, the CCCS, until its closure in 2002, was revolutionary in…

…first principal of the new Birmingham University, and he was knighted in 1902. After 1900 he became prominent in psychical research, believing strongly in the possibility of communicating with the dead.