Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol and author of several books on British and global media history, including ‘This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain? 1922-2022’ (Oxford University Press, 2022) and ‘Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939’ (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is co-author of ‘The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting’ (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Simon’s research focuses on British imperial and global history and on media history, including the history of newspapers and the periodical press, radio broadcasting and television. He seeks to bring research in these different fields together to reveal the connections between empire, globalization, and the mass media since the nineteenth century, and to shed light on the nature of the global mass media today.
Books in order of publication:
News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press System 1876-1922 – 2003
Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: Reporting the British Empire c.1857-1921 – 2004
Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970 – 2012
Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939 – 2020
This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022 – 2022
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