This book traces the relationship between the popular press and the Labour Party from the early twentieth century through the Second World War and up to the cur

'IT'S THE SUN WOT WON IT', was the famous headline claim of Britain's most popular newspaper following the Conservative party's victory over Labour in the 1992

New Labour's electoral success of the late 20th century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This book reminds us that the importance o

The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite th

In the early twentieth century, new mass media—popular newspapers, radio, film—exploded at the same time that millions of Britons received the vote in the f