Chapter Information and propaganda. Early English newspapers and the First British Empire
The text aims to present the earliest English newspapers’ efforts to inform about and comment upon the events related to England’s imperial ambition in the first half of the 17th century. Due to time concurrence between the beginnings of the English press and the emergence of the First British Empir...
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| description | The text aims to present the earliest English newspapers’ efforts to inform about and comment upon the events related to England’s imperial ambition in the first half of the 17th century. Due to time concurrence between the beginnings of the English press and the emergence of the First British Empire, it is obvious that the two were interrelated. Newsbooks could have served as means of dissemination of news about new colonial initiatives, while people involved in colonial ventures were providing editors with topics to write about. However, the crucial moment when the press focused not only on informing, but also on propagating and promoting government’s imperial ambitions was mid-1650s’, especially the period of the English fleet’s expedition to the West Indies, known as The Western Design. As the plan to capture Hispaniola from Spain and turn it into an English stronghold in the Carribean had collapsed the press got involved into a “damage control” campaign coordinated by the government. The analysis of the news items published in one of the most popular titles, “Weekly Intelligencer”, proves that this campaign was quite successful, as even independent editors were eager to cooperate. Therefore, there are no arguments supporting the theory that their criticism could have been the reason for suppression of the press market in the late September 1655. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1548802025-03-07T13:41:41Z Chapter Information and propaganda. Early English newspapers and the First British Empire Kalinowska, Anna British Empire British colonies postcolonialism colonialism Great Britain United Kingdom The text aims to present the earliest English newspapers’ efforts to inform about and comment upon the events related to England’s imperial ambition in the first half of the 17th century. Due to time concurrence between the beginnings of the English press and the emergence of the First British Empire, it is obvious that the two were interrelated. Newsbooks could have served as means of dissemination of news about new colonial initiatives, while people involved in colonial ventures were providing editors with topics to write about. However, the crucial moment when the press focused not only on informing, but also on propagating and promoting government’s imperial ambitions was mid-1650s’, especially the period of the English fleet’s expedition to the West Indies, known as The Western Design. As the plan to capture Hispaniola from Spain and turn it into an English stronghold in the Carribean had collapsed the press got involved into a “damage control” campaign coordinated by the government. The analysis of the news items published in one of the most popular titles, “Weekly Intelligencer”, proves that this campaign was quite successful, as even independent editors were eager to cooperate. Therefore, there are no arguments supporting the theory that their criticism could have been the reason for suppression of the press market in the late September 1655. 2025-03-07T13:41:40Z 2025-03-07T13:41:40Z 2019 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788381422963_305 9788381422963 9788381422956 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/154880 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/961 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8142-295-6.06 The text aims to present the earliest English newspapers’ efforts to inform about and comment upon the events related to England’s imperial ambition in the first half of the 17th century. Due to time concurrence between the beginnings of the English press and the emergence of the First British Empire, it is obvious that the two were interrelated. Newsbooks could have served as means of dissemination of news about new colonial initiatives, while people involved in colonial ventures were providing editors with topics to write about. However, the crucial moment when the press focused not only on informing, but also on propagating and promoting government’s imperial ambitions was mid-1650s’, especially the period of the English fleet’s expedition to the West Indies, known as The Western Design. As the plan to capture Hispaniola from Spain and turn it into an English stronghold in the Carribean had collapsed the press got involved into a “damage control” campaign coordinated by the government. The analysis of the news items published in one of the most popular titles, “Weekly Intelligencer”, proves that this campaign was quite successful, as even independent editors were eager to cooperate. Therefore, there are no arguments supporting the theory that their criticism could have been the reason for suppression of the press market in the late September 1655. 10.18778/8142-295-6.06 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788381422963 9788381422956 81-96 open access |
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