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The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for
centuries - as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a
symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre
of the world's biggest empire, and the home of an enduring and
influential parliamentary democracy. Since 1945, the UK has faced
unprecedented challenges as it has come to terms with the loss of
great power status, the surrender of its colonial territories, the
decline of its staple industries, and growing pressures threatening
to tear apart the union holding together England, Wales, Scotland,
and Northern Ireland. In this book, Adrian Bingham guides readers
through the key developments in British post-war history to reveal
how the nation was shaped by the legacies and lessons of the past.
The UK has become a more diverse, pluralistic, and mobile society,
but it remains one struggling to come to terms with its changed
position in the world, and unable to reach consensus around a
vision for the future.
This book explores how print journalism was a powerful and
persistent influence on public attitudes to, and memories of, the
First World War in a range of participant nations, including
Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Australia.
With contributions from an international group of history,
journalism and literary studies scholars, the book identifies and
analyses five distinct roles played by the print media: producing
and narrating histories of the war or its constituent episodes;
serialising and reviewing memoirs or fictional accounts written by
participants; reporting and framing the rituals and ceremonies of
local and national commemoration; providing a platform for various
war-related advocacy groups or campaigns, from veterans'
associations to early Civil Rights movements; and using the war as
a lens through which to interpret future conflicts. This innovative
collection demonstrates the significance of journalism in shaping
the public understanding of the First World War after 1918, and
shows how the representations and narratives of the conflict
reflected the political and social changes of the post-war decades.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism
Studies.
This book explores how print journalism was a powerful and
persistent influence on public attitudes to, and memories of, the
First World War in a range of participant nations, including
Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Australia.
With contributions from an international group of history,
journalism and literary studies scholars, the book identifies and
analyses five distinct roles played by the print media: producing
and narrating histories of the war or its constituent episodes;
serialising and reviewing memoirs or fictional accounts written by
participants; reporting and framing the rituals and ceremonies of
local and national commemoration; providing a platform for various
war-related advocacy groups or campaigns, from veterans'
associations to early Civil Rights movements; and using the war as
a lens through which to interpret future conflicts. This innovative
collection demonstrates the significance of journalism in shaping
the public understanding of the First World War after 1918, and
shows how the representations and narratives of the conflict
reflected the political and social changes of the post-war decades.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism
Studies.
Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics,
society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides a
concise and accessible historical overview of the rise of the
tabloid format and examines how the national press reported the
major stories of the period, from World Wars and general elections
to sex scandals and celebrity gossip. It considers the appeal and
influence of the most successful titles, such as the
<I>Daily Mail</I>, the <I>Daily
Mirror</I>, the <I>Daily Express </I>and the
<I>Sun</I>, and explores the emergence of the key
elements of the modern popular newspaper, such as editorial
campaigns, women's pages, advice columns, and pin-ups. Using a
wealth of examples from across the century, the authors explain how
tabloids provided an important forum for the discussion of social
identities such as class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, and how
they scrutinised public figures with increasing intensity. In the
wake of recent controversies about tabloid practices, this timely
book provides the historical context to enable a proper assessment
of how the popular press helped to define twentieth-century
Britain.
The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for
centuries - as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a
symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre
of the world's biggest empire, and the home of an enduring and
influential parliamentary democracy. Since 1945, the UK has faced
unprecedented challenges as it has come to terms with the loss of
great power status, the surrender of its colonial territories, the
decline of its staple industries, and growing pressures threatening
to tear apart the union holding together England, Wales, Scotland,
and Northern Ireland. In this book, Adrian Bingham guides readers
through the key developments in British post-war history to reveal
how the nation was shaped by the legacies and lessons of the past.
The UK has become a more diverse, pluralistic, and mobile society,
but it remains one struggling to come to terms with its changed
position in the world, and unable to reach consensus around a
vision for the future.
Offers a definitive history of the British and Irish Press from
1900-2017 Captures the cross-regional and transnational dimension
of press history in twentieth-century and at the start of twenty
first-century Britain and Ireland Offers unique and important
reassessments of twentieth-century and contemporary British and
Irish press and periodical media within social, cultural,
technological, economic and historical contexts Provides a timeline
of significant events for cross-reference as well as an extensive
bibliography for further research At various points over the last
400 years, key political, economic and social processes, have
worked to hinder or promote the expansion and dissemination of
information across Britain and Ireland via newspapers and
periodicals. In a contemporary era characterized by debate on the
limits of devolution and the potential of independence we need to
assess the roles played by newspapers and periodicals in enabling
national and regional identities to emerge, cohere and diversify
over time. How can we best identify the most significant of these
processes? What were the critical flashpoints in their development?
How have they marked the place of the press in civic society? What
are the consequences in considering these within the general
history of the British and Irish press? This proposed volume in a
three volume series will address these matters, offering a
definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity
across Britain and Ireland between 1900 and 2017, and addressing
questions related to four key research interests: general
social/political history; newspaper and periodical history;
cultural history; technological history. A further aim is to
situate such discussions within the larger framework of
communication and media history.
Family Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of
modern popular press coverage of sex and private life, from the
start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of
the Sun's sexualized journalism in 1978, when circulation overtook
that of its rival, the Daily Mirror.
In this period, newspapers were at the heart of British popular
culture, and Fleet Street's preoccupation with sex meant that the
press was a hugely significant source of knowledge and imagery
about sexual behavior, personal relationships, and moral codes.
Focusing on changing ideas of what sexual content was deemed "fit
to print," Adrian Bingham reveals how editors negotiated the
tension between exploiting public curiosity about sex and ensuring
that their journalism remained within the bounds of acceptability
for a "family newspaper." The study challenges established
interpretations of social change by drawing attention to the ways
in which the press opened up the public discussion of sexuality
before the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s.
Exploring the spectacular diversity of the press's sexual
content--from advice columns to pin-ups, from court reports to
celebrity revelations--Bingham offers a rich and thought-provoking
investigation of a media form that has done much to shape the
character of modern Britain.
Journalists often claim that they write the first draft of history,
but few historians examine the press in detail when preparing later
drafts. This book demonstrates the value of popular newspapers as a
historical source by using them to explore the attitudes and
identities of inter-war Britain, and in particular the reshaping of
femininity and masculinity. It provides a fresh insight into a
period of great significance in the making of twentieth century
gender identities, when women and men were coming to terms with the
upheavals of the Great War, the arrival of democracy, and rapid
social change. The book also deepens our understanding of the
development of the modern media by showing how newspaper editors,
in the fierce competition for readers, developed a template for the
popular press that is still influential today.
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