University of Birmingham Student (Alumni) Papers: Papers of Charles Critcher

Charles Critcher joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a postgraduate having been an undergraduate at Birmingham in the English department. He was an active member of the Centre during the 1970s, as well as a key player in a community advice centre in the Handsworth district of Birmingham. These papers relate to both endeavours, which often came together, as with the Centre's work on 'mugging'. Papers comprise six publications that Charles Critcher was involved in during his time at the Centre, together with copy of report 'Race in the Inner City' by Augustine John 1970, and posters and window display material from 40 Hall Road Handsworth Community Action Centre. This rolled poster has sometimes been called the 'Handsworth Scroll'

Charles Critcher is Emeritus Professor of Communications at Sheffield Hallam University. He has been Visiting Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Swansea University since 2007. His main research interest in the sociology of culture, with particular emphasis on moral panics and the media. His current research centres on comparisons of moral panics and tests models of moral panics against examples including AIDS, rave/ecstasy culture, 'video nasties', child abuse and paedophilia.

http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/ltm/critcherc/ Accessed July 2013

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Presented by Charles Critcher, January and June 2013

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Catalogued by Kieran Connell, December 2013, as part of AHRC funded project 'The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: connected collaboration, connected communities and connected impact. Description prepared in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

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