- Contributes to understandings of the role of the war correspondent, and the Press generally, during the tumultuous war years from 1914 to 1918
- Provides important insights into the origin and role of the press which is significant in any discussion of contemporary war reporting
- Utilises extensive research conducted in the Gibbs' family archive and British Library newspaper depository, The National Archives and the National Library of Australia
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- About this book
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Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This coverage of his writing offers a broad insight into British social and political developments, government and press relations, propaganda, and war reporting during the First World War.
- About the authors
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Martin C. Kerby is Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and is also the museum curator and archivist at St Joseph's Nudgee College, Brisbane, Australia. He was recently awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship, a Queensland Anzac Centenary Grant and an Australian Arts and Culture Grant.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Victorian Childhood: 1877–1895
Pages 1-17
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The New Journalism: 1895–1912
Pages 19-57
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Free Lance War Correspondent: 1912–1915
Pages 59-100
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Official War Correspondent: 1915–1918
Pages 101-140
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Adventures in Journalism: 1918–1939
Pages 141-195
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace
- Authors
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- Martin Kerby
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) if applicable and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-57301-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-57301-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57300-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-84774-7
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6575
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXV, 237
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