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... force behind the increasingly public nature of much politics' in the eighteenth century (Harris 1996:47; cf. Brewer 1989:243). This, in turn, made the system of government more open and accountable. The growth of the press also ...
... force. In the eighteenth century, it enabled the middle class to gain access to new cultural experiences, some of which had been previously the preserve of the upper class (Plumb 1983a). Marketization resulted in control of the ...
... force of the 1930s radio craze and foreign competition caused the BBC to tack to the wind of popular demand. In 1936 ... forces and the Ministry of Information, to give greater priority to entertainment in order to boost morale (Cardiff ...
... (Forces Programme) in 1940; the projection of ordinary domestic life as an adventure story in 1950s commercial television soap opera; BBC radio's full conversion to pop music in the 1960s; the introduction of commercial local radio in ...
... force in shaping public attitudes to becoming one of the most godless societies in the world. During the same period, the further embedding of the market system, and the decline of the factory, trade union, church, local neighbourhood ...