Media and the British Empire

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introductory Survey....Pages 1-19
‘To Enlighten South Africa’: The Creation of a Free Press at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 20-36
‘The thinking is done in London’: South Africa’s English Language Press and Imperialism....Pages 37-54
‘The Old Pals’ Protection Society’? The Colonial Office and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation....Pages 55-69
The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1948–56....Pages 70-87
Ernest Jones’ Mutiny: The People’s Paper, English Popular Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857–58....Pages 88-103
Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill’s Press Campaign against Constitutional Reform in India, 1929–1935....Pages 104-124
India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire, 1909–1946....Pages 125-144
‘Business as Usual’? British Newsreel Coverage of Indian Independence and Partition, 1947–1948....Pages 145-159
Purity, Obscenity and the Making of an Imperial Censorship System....Pages 160-173
Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in Imperial News and Cable Communication (1870–1912)....Pages 174-189
A ‘Sense of Common Citizenship’? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire....Pages 190-204
‘That some must suffer for the greater good’: The Post Courier and the 1969 Bougainville Crisis....Pages 205-218
The Influence of the British Empire through the Development of Communications in Canada: French Radio Broadcasting during the Second World War....Pages 219-232
Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang’s ‘Indigenous’ English Press....Pages 233-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-266