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Hello, it must have been 1970 when I first met Stuart Hall, the Jamaican-born

sociologist cultural theorist and political campaigner who died earlier this week.

He was standing alone and rather isolated at the side of a room in the University of York that was otherwise

filled with very, very enthusiastic dancers, sort of motley collection of young sociologists who were attending a meeting of the national deviancy conference.

And as I was the nominal organized of the conference, I felt some mild responsibility for the delegates I wandered over to

Stuart who at the time I really I hardly knew him and I said I was surprised he was

not dancing and he turned slowly to me my my natural sense of rhythm, he inquired gently, and as I was beginning to bluster my

way out of my discomfiture, I saw that he was laughing with that distinctive chuckle which always surfaced whenever he felt he'd become a little

bit too serious, a little too lacking in irony, a little bit too right on.

Those people from all over the world who, the sad news came through who have rushed to pay tribute to Stuart have so often combined these tributes to his intellectual and political achievements with references to that very warmth, tolerance and

generosity of spirit. Ben Carrington, professor of sociology. A socialist

intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.

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