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

Mon Nov 28 13:47:59 GMT 2016



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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