LEADER 02565nam 22005291 450 001 9910154923903321 005 20200506135228.0 010 $a9780755621125 010 $a0755621123 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755621125 035 $a(CKB)3710000000884827 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4749873 035 $a(OCoLC)965167451 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09265331 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9780755621125BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000884827 100 $a20200603d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOriginal spin $eDowning Street and the press in Victorian Britain /$fby Paul Brighton 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (284 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9781780760599 311 08$a1780760590 311 08$a9780857728142 311 08$a0857728148 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightly-organised media launches - the well-known world of modern political spin. But is this really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press for as long as newspapers have existed? In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, media-savvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone and Disraeli, Prime Ministers have all tried to manipulate the press to a greater or lesser extent. Brighton uncovers the covert contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed their viewpoints via the newspapers. For the first time, "Original Spin" tells the whole, unvarnished, story."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aGovernment and the press$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPress and politics$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBritish & Irish history$2BIC 615 0$aGovernment and the press$xHistory 615 0$aPress and politics$xHistory 615 7$aBritish & Irish history. 676 $a306.2094109034 676 $a320.0140941 700 $aBrighton$b Paul$f1959-$01132934 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154923903321 996 $aOriginal spin$92962460 997 $aUNINA