A distinguished and well-respected thinker, theorist, sociologist, and political activist, Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932. He attended Jamaica College and in 1950 was the recipient of both the Jamaica and Rhodes scholarships. The exhibition highlights his high school accomplishments, his cultural and political activism in Britain, his scholarship, his impressive public service record, as well as his numerous honours and awards.

The exhibition was originally mounted  for the Centre  for Caribbean Thought's Third  Annual Conference  in 2004  entitled "Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: the Thought of Stuart Hall”,

It was remounted in his memory. (Feb 2014)