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Winston Churchill in the British MediaScotland

Winston Churchill in the British Media: Scotland [This chapter shows how Scottish identities influenced the way Scottish newspapers portrayed Churchill. It demonstrates that Scottish identities were often promoted and emphasized in many newspapers, except the Labour-supporting newspaper, the Forward. Scottish newspapers, regardless of political affiliation, often resented English politicians’ insensitive use of ‘England’ for ‘Britain’. Most obviously, Scottishness became a matter of discussion concerning Churchill’s choice of an English politician, Ernest Brown, as Secretary of State for Scotland in May 1940 and that of a Scottish politician, Tom Johnston, in February 1941. How Scottish newspapers reported on Churchill certainly reflected Scottishness and Scottish interests. However, except in the Nationalist newspaper, the Scots Independent, the Scottish identities expressed in the selected newspapers also accommodated British identities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Winston Churchill in the British MediaScotland

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-48251-0
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57 –96
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10.1007/978-3-030-48252-7_3
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[This chapter shows how Scottish identities influenced the way Scottish newspapers portrayed Churchill. It demonstrates that Scottish identities were often promoted and emphasized in many newspapers, except the Labour-supporting newspaper, the Forward. Scottish newspapers, regardless of political affiliation, often resented English politicians’ insensitive use of ‘England’ for ‘Britain’. Most obviously, Scottishness became a matter of discussion concerning Churchill’s choice of an English politician, Ernest Brown, as Secretary of State for Scotland in May 1940 and that of a Scottish politician, Tom Johnston, in February 1941. How Scottish newspapers reported on Churchill certainly reflected Scottishness and Scottish interests. However, except in the Nationalist newspaper, the Scots Independent, the Scottish identities expressed in the selected newspapers also accommodated British identities.]

Published: Jul 18, 2020

Keywords: Winston Churchill; Scotland; Secretary of State for Scotland; Dundee

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