To review and rediscover the histories of the problematics，methodologies and practices of Cultural Studies and the CCCS，this paper deals with three aspects：first，the changes in theoretical perspectives and the main problematics which have staked out the Center’s development through the 1970s；second，the question of the different areas of concrete research in which the center has been centrally engaged；third，the modes of organization and the intellectual practices of analysis and research，through which the development of the Center，and of Cultural Studies has been achieved.