Election Politics and the Mass Press in Long Edwardian Britain

<p>This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system.</p><p>Drawing on a parallel analysis of election-time newspaper content and archived political correspondence the author argues that the ‘new dailies’ were a welcome and vibrant addition to the mass political culture that existed in Britain prior to World War 1. Chapters explore the ways in which the three ‘new dailies’ – Mail Express and Mirror – represented political news during the four general elections of the period; how their content intersected with and became a part of the mass consumer culture of pre-Great War Britain; and the differing ways political parties reacted to this new press and what those reactions said about broader political attitudes towards the worth of ‘mass’ political communication.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars of media history British popular politics journalism history and media studies.</p>