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RR 2015/191 The Routledge Companion to British Media History Edited by Martin Conboy and John Steel Routledge London and New York 2015 xvii + 610 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 537 18 6 (print); ISBN 978 1 315 75620 2 (e-book) £140 $225 Routledge Companions
Keywords History, Mass media, United Kingdom
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2015-0057
Fifty chapters by leading experts in their subjects are contained in this massive and scholarly guide to British media history. The introductory chapter outlines the complexity and diversity of media history, reassuring anyone with negative impressions of the subject, that media history is a serious and scholarly discipline. The breadth of its subject coverage is impressive and it provides an authoritative snapshot to the main trends in media history.
The scene is set by placing the subject...