Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the End of the Imperial Romance

Griffiths, Andrew (2013). Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the End of the Imperial Romance. Victorian Periodicals Review, 46(2) pp. 163–183.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2013.0016

Abstract

Winston Churchill’s Morning Post correspondence from Kitchener’s 1898 Sudan expedition documents a shift in the practice and reportage of imperialism. Sensational New Journalism and aggressive New Imperialism had been locked in a mutually-supportive relationship. Special correspondents, including Churchill, emphasised the romance of empire. However, Churchill also looked forward with trepidation to a time when “there will be no more of these nice little expeditions […] no more peerages for the generals, no more copy for the journalists.” Kitchener’s application of military technology produced a combination of tedium and horror which challenged correspondents. Churchill’s Sudan correspondence records the end of Britain’s imperial romance.

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