The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53

The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non English parts of the United Kingdom.

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This book is about the life and work of David Milch

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Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism

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This book covers the social and economic history of Ireland from the aftermath of the famine to the years leading up to Home Rule