The Historian 171: Media and News
The magazine of the Historical Association
In this edition of The Historian
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4 Letters
5 Editorial
6 ‘I wish I had a messenger like that’: News and communication in medieval Europe – Helen Birkett
12 ‘For the publishing of our joy to the world’: diplomats and the battle for news in seventeenth-century Europe – Nina Lamal
20 Telegraph troubles: rumour, imperialism, and the global media network during the Boxer War, summer 1900 – Thoralf Klein
26 The BBC in 1947 India: what lost histories can tell us about colonial broadcasting – Utsha Roy
31 The medieval science of weather forecasting – Anne Lawrence-Mathers
36 A sort of magic: Black Britons on BBC television 1936 to 1956 – Stephen Bourne
43 Education for salvation: the lost cause of the National Society 1811–1861? – John Davis
47 Update: The tangled history of early modern news – Jenni Hyde
50 Real lives: Monitoring German Wireless transmissions in the Second World War: the amateur radio enthusiasts who played a vital role – Anne Andrews
54 In conversation with Heidi Tworek
59 Doing history: To reshape public memory: the 1826 Weavers Uprising and Chatterton Massacre – David Gordon Scott and Joseph Cozens
62 Out and about: Quakers in the Chiltern Hills – Ellie Harrison
66 Reviews
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