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... circulation and extended their coverage of public affairs. Some papers publicized grassroots campaigns to 'instruct' MPs in the first half of the eightenth century, and contributed to the rise of the mass petition as a key instrument of ...
James Curran. their circulation and political coverage, so they extended the boundaries of the political nation, both horizontally to include peripheral areas distant from London and vertically to include people lower down the social ...
... 1970). Yet, despite these changes, they continued to assume that the life of a woman centred on getting and keeping a man, and sustaining a happy home. Mass circulation women's magazines Rival narratives of media history 11.
James Curran. man, and sustaining a happy home. Mass circulation women's magazines were still telling their readers as late as the 1950s that a 'half-time' mother was 'half-a- mother' to her deprived children (Ferguson 1983). Even the ...
... circulation figures in case this distorted his editorial judgement (Chaney 1987:266). However this seclusion came to an end. Between 1931 and 1938, the BBC's licence-paying audience soared from 27 per cent to 71 per cent of British ...