This article takes up the theme that a significant but often ignored source for British Cultural Studies began in the interdisciplinary teaching of the Workers’ Educational Association and university extra-mural departments in the immediate post-Second World War years. I deepen this argument by outlining the history of ‘popular education’ in Europe and beyond in the modern period to illustrate how the coming together of subaltern political movements and intellectual inquiry created an independent public sphere of radical self-enlightenment. In this article, by utilising archival and textual sources, I should like to explore whether it may be possible to renew the original project of Cultural Studies through radical programmes of ‘popular’ adult education in the digital age. I see Jim McGuigan’s work as offering ‘resources of hope’, in Raymond Williams’ phrase, for this tradition in the universe of academic Cultural Studies.

本文讨论的主题是，在第二次世界大战结束后的不久，工人教育协会和大学校外部门的跨学科教学开始了英国文化研究的重要但通常被忽略的资料。通过概述欧洲及以后现代“大众教育”的历史，我加深了这一论点，以说明次要政治运动和知识探索的融合如何创建了一个激进的自我启蒙的独立公共领域。在本文中，我想利用档案和文本资料，探索是否有可能通过数字时代“普及”成人教育的激进计划来更新文化研究的原始项目。我认为Jim McGuigan的作品提供了“希望的资源”，