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Index
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Editor’s introduction
1. Narratives of media history revisited
SECTION I. The liberal narrative
2. Renewing the liberal tradition: The press and public discussion in twentieth-century Britain1
3. Change and reaction in BBC Current Affairs Radio, 1928–1970
SECTION II. The feminist narrative
4. The angel in the ether: Early radio and the constitution of the household
5. ‘Going to Spain with the boys’: Women correspondents and the Spanish Civil War
SECTION III. The populist narrative
6. ‘A moment of triumph in the history of the free mind’?: British and American advertising agencies’ responses to the introduction of commercial television in the United Kingdom
7. The Pilkington Report: The triumph of paternalism?
SECTION IV. The libertarian narrative
8. ‘A stream of pollution through every part of the country?’: Morality, regulation and the modern popular press
9. ‘Outrageously bad taste’: The BBC and the controversy over This is Your Life in the 1950s
SECTION V. The anthropological narrative
10. Television in Wales, c. 1950–70
11. ‘Nation shall speak peace unto nation’: The BBC and the projection of a new Britain, 1967–82
SECTION VI. The radical narrative
12. The birth of distance: Communications and changing conceptions of elsewhere
13. What fourth estate?
SECTION VII. The technological determinist narrative
14. The question of technology
15. Narrating the history of media technologies: Pitfalls and prospects
Bibliography
Index
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