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Aaron Ackerley, Ph.D.

Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages · University of Oslo, Norway — Lecturer

Research Areas

  • Communications Theory
  • Journalism
  • Media and Communication History
  • Media Audiences
  • Media Systems
  • Media Theory
  • Political Communication
  • Popular Culture
  • Public Relations

Highlighted publications

'Radical and/or Respectable Revisited: Coverage of Radical Politics in The Times and the Manchester Guardian in Inter-war Britain', Historical Research , 95.268 (2022), pp. 240-63

'Professional Identity', in M. Conboy, A. Bingham (eds), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

‘Freedom of the Press in Britain: From Radical to Reactionary... to Reinvigoration?’, in J. Steel, J. Petley (eds), Routledge Companion to Freedom of Speech & Expression (London: Routledge, 2023)

About

I am a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire, with a particular focus on intersections between politics, the media, and popular culture. In particular, my work has explored topics such as debates about economic ideas in the interwar British daily press, the role of the quality press in building support for the construction of the post-war welfare state, the press barons and their relationship to popular imperialism, the practice of journalism and the functioning of newsrooms in twentieth-century Britain, and the historical evolution of debates about free speech and freedom of the press.