Original spin : Downing Street and the press in Victorian Britain / Paul Brighton.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: vii, 280 pages : portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780760599; 1780760590Other title: Downing Street and the press in Victorian BritainSubject(s): Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Government and the press -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Communication in politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Government and the press | Press and politics | Great Britain | Presse et politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle | Communication en politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle | Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19e siècle | 1800 - 1899Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 320.0140941 LOC classification: JA85.2.G7 | B75 2016| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-271) and index.
In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, media-savvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone and Disraeli, Prime Ministers have all tried to manipulate the press to a greater or lesser extent. Brighton uncovers the covert contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed their viewpoints via the newspapers--Publisher description.
The age of Pitt the Younger -- Liverpool and Wellington -- Grey and Melbourne -- Peel and Russell -- Lord Derby -- Lord Aberdeen -- Lord Palmerston -- Benjamin Disraeli -- William Gladstone -- Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery.
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