Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855
Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855

Author: Hannah Barker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1317883454

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This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century England as well as an important study of the history of the media.

Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950
Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950

Author: Mark Hampton

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780252029462

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Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing conceptions of the press and its proper role in British society. In Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, Mark Hampton surveys a diversity of sources--Parliamentary speeches and commissions, books, pamphlets, periodicals and select private correspondence--in order to identify how governmental elites, the educated public, professional journalists, and industry moguls characterized the political and cultural function of the press. Hampton demonstrates that British theories of the press were intimately tied to definitions of the public and the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Birmingham
Birmingham

Author: Carl Chinn

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781382479

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This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.

The History of the Provincial Press in England
The History of the Provincial Press in England

Author: Rachel Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1441100164

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Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to the constant influx of new technology. At the same time, while studies of the national press have created a continuous narrative on the newspaper, the history of the regional press has been subject to relatively little academic scrutiny, despite being a significant industry in terms of a readership, circulation and profit. By focusing on provincial English newspapers, Matthews makes the case for the larger issue of the future of local newspapers worldwide. She argues that a comprehensive approach to the history of the regional press can result in a conceptualization of the industry in terms of the shift in emphasis between the key elements of state control, ownership, social influence and production techniques. They can be categorized into six distinct stages: the local newspaper as opportunistic creation; the characterization of the local newspaper as fourth estate; the impact of New Journalism; the growth of chain control, the shock of the free paper and new technology and finally, the current picture, the search for a new business model.

Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain

Author: I. Cawood

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1137528850

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Winston Churchill described Joseph Chamberlain as 'the man who made the weather' for twenty years in British politics between the 1880s and the 1900s. This volume contains contributions on every aspect of Chamberlain's career, including international and cultural perspectives hitherto ignored by his many biographers. It breaks his career into three aspects: his career as an international statesman, defender of British interests and champion of imperial federation; his role as a national leader, opposing Gladstone's crusade for Irish home rule by forming an alliance with the Conservatives, campaigning for social reform and finally advocating a protectionist economic policy to promote British business; and the aspect for which he is still celebrated in his adopted city, as the provider of sanitation, gas lighting, clean water and cultural achievement for Birmingham – a model of civic regeneration that still inspires modern politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Tristram Hunt and David Willetts.

Myth and Reality In Late Eighteenth Century British Politics
Myth and Reality In Late Eighteenth Century British Politics

Author: Ian R. Christie

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0520336119

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Civilising Subjects
Civilising Subjects

Author: Catherine Hall

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780226313351

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This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues.

Winston Churchill in the British Media
Winston Churchill in the British Media

Author: Hanako Ishikawa

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 3030482529

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The book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers. By using a variety of newspapers from these areas, it examines local opinions about Churchill at the time he was the wartime prime minister. It analyses how Churchill was received and depicted by newspapers in the UK and why differences in these depictions emerged in each area. It contributes to the study of public opinion in the war and of Churchill’s reputation, of the British media, as well as to the study of the notion of Britishness, focusing on local perspectives.