This superbly researched monograph covers familiar ground to historians of mass communication...Recommended.
Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on the history of the mass media and the history of empire, and his work brings together themes, ideas, and debates from these two fields. He has also written extensively on the wider historiographies of the British Empire and the British World, and on recent developments in Global History. His publications include Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British
World, 1922-1970 (2012), British Imperial History (2015), and News and the British World: the Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876-1922 (2003). He has led a Leverhulme Trust International Network on global radio history and worked with heritage groups in Bristol on public engagement with the legacies
of empire.