[ecrea] New Book: The Tories and Television, 1951-1964: Broadcasting an Elite

Many thanks to Dr Michael Higgins, Strathclyde, for his kind endorsement 
and early announcement of my latest book. I am delighted to announce it 
is now published and fully available:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthony-Ridge-Newman/e/B00OFWPYPU

/The Tories and Television/pays significant attention to the 
relationships between the Tories, BBC and commercial TV in the years 
after World War II.

The early 1950s were characterized by recovery from war and high 
politics. Television was a new medium that eventually came to dominate 
mass media and political culture. But what impact did this transition 
have on political organization and elite power structures?

Winston Churchill avoided it; Anthony Eden wanted to control it; Harold 
Macmillan tried to master it; and Alec Douglas-Home was not Prime 
Minister long enough to fully utilize it.

The Conservative Party’s relationship with the new medium of television 
is a topic rich with scholarly questions and interesting quirks that 
were characteristic of the period.

This exploration examines the changing dynamics between politics and the 
media, at grassroots and elite levels.

Through analysing rich and diverse source materials from the 
Conservative Party Archive, the book takes a case study approach to 
comparing the impact of television at different points in the party’s 
history.

In mapping changes across a thirteen year period of continual 
Conservative governance, the book argues that the advent of television 
contributed to the party’s transition from a membership-focused party to 
a television-centric professionalized elite.

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