Media and the British Empire

1. Introductory Survey
Chandrika Kaul

2. ‘To Enlighten South Africa’: The Creation of a Free Press at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century
John M. MacKenzie

3. ‘The thinking is done in London’: South Africa’s English Language Press and Imperialism
John Lambert

4. ‘The Old Pals’ Protection Society’? The Colonial Office and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation
Joanna Lewis, Philip Murphy

5. The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1948–56
Susan Williams

6. Ernest Jones’ Mutiny: The People’s Paper, English Popular Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857–58
Tim Pratt

7. Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill’s Press Campaign against Constitutional Reform in India, 1929–1935
Ian St John

8. India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire, 1909–1946
Chandrika Kaul

9. ‘Business as Usual’? British Newsreel Coverage of Indian Independence and Partition, 1947–1948
Philip Woods

10. Purity, Obscenity and the Making of an Imperial Censorship System
Deana Heath

11. Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in Imperial News and Cable Communication (1870–1912)
Denis Cryle

12. A ‘Sense of Common Citizenship’? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire
Ross Harvey

13. ‘That some must suffer for the greater good’: The Post Courier and the 1969 Bougainville Crisis
Philip Cass

14. The Influence of the British Empire through the Development of Communications in Canada: French Radio Broadcasting during the Second World War
Alain Canuel

15. Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang’s ‘Indigenous’ English Press
Su Lin Lewis

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Modern History