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Picturing race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988

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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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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
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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2017Published
12 December 2017Available
29 October 2016Accepted
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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