%0 Journal Article %1 bingham_ignoring_2012 %A Bingham, Adrian %D 2012 %J Media History %K externalist historiography history intellectual journalism-history media-history %N 3-4 %P 311--326 %R 10.1080/13688804.2012.721644 %T Ignoring the First Draft of History? Searching for the Popular Press in Studies of Twentieth-Century Britain %V 18 %X Until recent years, historians of twentieth-century Britain have made relatively little use of the popular press as a source. This is partly due to the practical problems of working with newspapers (pre-digitisation); there has also been, however, a widespread perception that popular journalism is predictable, trivial and politically and socially conservative, and therefore not worthy of sustained scholarly attention. These attitudes are starting to change, encouraged by the process of digitisation. Nevertheless, substantial gaps remain in our understanding of the impact of the press. This article is in two sections; the first examines how popular national newspapers have been used in political narratives, and the second explores their place in discussions of social and cultural change. The article argues that not only have entrenched stereotypes prevented historians from properly understanding the nature of popular newspapers, they have also led to them misinterpreting broader developments in British politics, society and culture.

@article{bingham_ignoring_2012, abstract = {Until recent years, historians of twentieth-century Britain have made relatively little use of the popular press as a source. This is partly due to the practical problems of working with newspapers (pre-digitisation); there has also been, however, a widespread perception that popular journalism is predictable, trivial and politically and socially conservative, and therefore not worthy of sustained scholarly attention. These attitudes are starting to change, encouraged by the process of digitisation. Nevertheless, substantial gaps remain in our understanding of the impact of the press. This article is in two sections; the first examines how popular national newspapers have been used in political narratives, and the second explores their place in discussions of social and cultural change. The article argues that not only have entrenched stereotypes prevented historians from properly understanding the nature of popular newspapers, they have also led to them misinterpreting broader developments in British politics, society and culture.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Bingham, Adrian}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bf8c40a7a50f58595501752e545d7ebd/jpooley}, doi = {10.1080/13688804.2012.721644}, interhash = {20f76d73a81954d230a864e2d7a41d5a}, intrahash = {bf8c40a7a50f58595501752e545d7ebd}, journal = {Media History}, keywords = {externalist historiography history intellectual journalism-history media-history}, number = {3-4}, pages = {311--326}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Ignoring the {{First Draft}} of {{History}}? {{Searching}} for the {{Popular Press}} in {{Studies}} of {{Twentieth}}-{{Century Britain}}}, volume = 18, year = 2012 }