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Bivins, Roberta E. (2017) Picturing race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988. Twentieth Century British History, 28 (1). pp. 83-109. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hww059
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hww059
Abstract
In 1970, Harold Evans, the respected editor of Britain’s best-selling Sunday broadsheet the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, roundly reproached his fellow journalists for their reporting of ‘race’. Writing for the resolutely middle-brow The Listener magazine (published from 1929 to 1991 by the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] since 1929 to accompany and amplify the national broadcaster’s educational and cultural mission), Evans asserted that ‘the way race is reported can uniquely affect the reality of the subject itself’. In the matter of race, he observed, the newspapers did far more than fulfil their ‘traditional’ role as a ‘mirror of society’. Instead, ‘stealthily in Britain, the malformed seeds of prejudice have been watered by a rain of false statistics and stories’.1 Evans, famously a supporter of US-style campaigning investigative journalism, applied similar techniques to excoriate his fellow journalists. Focusing closely on the language in which stories about non-white migrants and racialized ethnic minorities were reported, he condemned rhetoric portraying migrants as ‘pouring in’ and Britain as being ‘overrun’.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Race--Great Britain--Pictorial works, National health services--Great Britain, National health services--Great Britain--History--Pictorial works, National health services--Great Britain--Pictorial works | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Twentieth Century British History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0955-2359 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 83-109 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/tcbh/hww059 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Wellcome Trust (London, England) |
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