Growth of the media
What Growth of the media means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A cultural transformation of leisure in which mass-circulation newspapers shaped public opinion and cinema became the dominant entertainment.
The rise of the BBC, founded 1922, cinema and tabloids, which forged a more homogenised national culture despite deep economic fractures.
Topics that use Growth of the media
- 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 – The Great War and its impact, 1914–1939 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – The search for stability, 1922–1929 (AQA A-Level)
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