Newspapers, War and Society in the 20th Century

Siân Nicholas is a Reader in Modern British History at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published widely on the history of the mass media in war and in peace. Her books include The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939–45 (1996), and Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890–2005 (edited with Tom O’Malley and Kevin Williams, 2008). Tom O’Malley is Emeritus Professor of Media at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is co-editor and co-founder of the journal Media History and has published widely on press and broadcasting history and policy. His books include Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy, 1979–92 (1994), Regulating The Press (with Clive Soley, 2000), and The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation (with David Barlow and Phillip Mitchell, 2005).

Introduction: Newspapers, war and society 1. ‘The Shadow in the East': Representations of the Russo-Japanese war in newspaper cartoons 2. The French media and the forging of a Franco-British alliance in the late 1930s 3. Content, comment and censorship: A case study comparing coverage of Dunkirk and D-Day in Irish newspapers 4. Reporting an alternative reality to ‘conveniently guide’ public opinion: The ‘patriotic role’ of the Portuguese press during World War II 5. The development of the ‘Pyle Style’ of war reporting: French North Africa, 1942-1943 6. Moulding Western European identity: The role of the Central Office of Information’s International Digest and its Greek version Eklogi (1945–1960) 7. ‘The Pied Piper Has Played His Tune’: The Daily Express, family and evacuation in 1939 8. The ‘Common Wealth Circus’: Popular politics and the popular press in wartime Britain, 1941–1945 9. How the War made The Mirror 10. Building the meaning of the Second World War on the British home front in commercial press advertising 11. The British press and D-Day: Reporting the launch of the Second Front, 6 June 1944 12. Was there a national press in the UK in the Second World War?