Newspapers, War and Society

Newspapers, War and Society

The Fifth Aberystwyth Media History Conference

Gregynog, Tuesday 29 April - Thursday 1 May 2014

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  James O'Donnell (National University of Ireland, Galway), Content, comment and censorship: a case study comparing coverage of Dunkirk and D-Day in Irish newspapers
  
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  Richard Fine (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), The development of the ‘Pyle style’ of war reporting in French North Africa, 1942-43
  
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  Sian Nicholas (Aberystwyth), Reporting D-Day from London
  

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  David Swift (University of Central Lancashire), Labour newspapers in the Great War: propagating patriotism or radical and representative?
  
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  Kris Lovell (Aberystwyth), Coverage of domestic politics in the British press in the Second World War
  

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  John Coward (University of Tulsa, USA), Illustrating the Indian Wars: fact, fantasy and ideology in the 19^th century American pictorial press
  
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  Simon Potter (Bristol), Imagining colonial war: newspapers, war and the nineteenth-century British Empire
  
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  Mara Oliva (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The Battle of China’: America’s distorted image of China during the Second World War
  

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  Dan Hucker (Nottingham), The French press, the Franco-British alliance, and British appeasement policy, 1937-39
  
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  Nelson Ribeiro (Catholic University, Portugal), Using wartime newspapers to promote a ‘neutral’ dictatorship: the case of Salazar during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War
  
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  Marc Wiggam (Aberystwyth), Reporting the world: international news in the British press in the Second World War
  

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  Caroline Dale (Aberystwyth), Aspects of the family in the British press in the Second World War
  
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  Rachel Matthews (Coventry), Newspapers, war and society: British provincial newspapers in the Second World War
  
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  Tom O’Malley (Aberystwyth), Was there a ‘national’ press in Britain in the Second World War?
  

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  Barry O'Shea (Portsmouth), The failure of British propaganda in Ireland, 1918-22
  
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  Yannis Skalidakis (Panteion University, Greece), Order and propaganda: Greek, German and Italian newspapers in occupied Crete 1941-45
  
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  Gioula Koutsopanagou (Panteion University, Greece), The role of international digests: the Greek digest Eklogi (1945-1960)
  

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  Koenraad Du Pont (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), European trench newspapers (1914-1918) in relation to the traditional press
  
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  Martin Hadlow (University of Queensland, Australia), ‘A clever product of trench life’: the informal Anzac front-line press in the First World War
  
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  Allison Oosterman (AUT University, NZ), Newspaper coverage of New Zealand troops in the First World War
  

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  Alexander Buczynski (Zagreb), News coverage of partisan warfare and Croatian irregulars during the Austrian War of Succession, 1740-48
  
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  Anne Toews (York University, Canada), Children’s bodies and the Spanish Civil War: the Canadian Communist press elaborates a hierarchy of vulnerability to capitalism
  
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  Christian Cronin (Canterbury Christ Church University), A cartoonist at war: David Low, the Evening Standard and the Spanish Civil War
  

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  Adrian Bingham, Amber Regis and John Steel (Sheffield), 1914 lives and headlines: regional newspapers and local voices in the First World War
  
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  Martin Conboy (Sheffield), How the war made the Mirror: the Daily Mirror and the Second World War
  
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  Guy Hodgson (Chester), Manchester newspapers in the Second World War
  

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  Jake Lynch (University of Sydney, Australia), Peace journalism: a comparative content analysis of the reporting of conflict
  

‘Drawing Fire: Analysing Newspaper Cartoons in the South African War (1899-1902) and the First World War’, by Chris Williams (Cardiff University).

Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth), The National Library of Wales First World War Digitisation Project.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion on digitisation in historical research.

Project presentation (Thursday):

Siân Nicholas, Tom O’Malley and Marc Wiggam (Aberystwyth), The Aberystwyth/Leverhulme Trust British Press in the Second World War project

This presentation will be followed by a short presentation on Sheffield University’s British and Irish press project

Roundtable (Thursday):

Newspapers as sources for the history of war.