Tories and Television, 1951-1964

Anthony Ridge-Newman is both a scholar and practitioner in media and politics. His teaching and research in this interdisciplinary field are based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. In 2014 he published Cameron’s Conservatives and the Internet with Palgrave, which Alexander Smith, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, endorsed as ‘breaking new ground’.

• 1. Tories and Television, 1951-64.- 2. Histories and Perspectives in Media and Politics.- 3. Churchill’s Conservatives and Television, 1951-55.- 4. Eden’s Conservatives and Television, 1955-57.- 5. Macmillan’s Conservatives and Television, 1957-58.- 6. 1959 General Election, Tories and TV, 1958-63.- 7. Tories, Television and Professionalization, 1962-64.- 8. Broadcasting an Elite.

“Ridge-Newman sets out to demonstrate not simply the ways that television has served as a means of political communication, but also the extent to which developments in television broadcasting have influenced the structure of political parties. ... Ridge-Newman’s argument, which is intelligent and persuasive. … He has undoubtedly … produced a book that would be equally at home on the bookshelves of political scientists and media historians. The Tories and Television is a fascinating and worthy read.” (Antony Mullen, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, May, 2017)