History A-Level
Television
What Television means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Television
Check what you remember
Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Television in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: Pearson Edexcel
From the 1950s it transformed leisure, family life and political communication, helping to nationalise consumer culture and later to broadcast civil rights and Vietnam.
Topics that use Television
- Society and culture in change, 1917–80 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Activism and the women’s liberation movement
- Cinema, popular music and radio
- Government policy and legal reform
- Limits of media influence
- Social and cultural expectations of women
- Bracero Program
- Broadcast news
- Emergency Quota Act 1921
Using Television in the exam
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