SECRECY AND THE MEDIA: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S D-NOTICE SYSTEM
Written by Nicholas Wilkinson
Published by Routledge
in 2009
ISBN: 9780415453752
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SECRECY AND THE MEDIA: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S D-NOTICE SYSTEM
Written by Nicholas Wilkinson.
Stock no. 1827481
1st.
2009.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets. Black cloth boards, silver titles. ISBN: 9780415453752. A very nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and lightly scuffed to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- SECTION I
- Pre-Formation: The Long Debate 1880's-1912
- 1 Victorian National Security and Press Interaction
- 2 Regulation of the Press, and the Boer War
- 3 Facing the Growing German Threat
- 4 Wrangling with the Press
- 5 Government Attempts to Litigate
- 6 Events Bring Matters to a Head
- SECTION 2
- Formation and Early Modus Operandi of the Committee, 1912-14
- 7 Establishing the Committee
- 8 Establishing Machinery and Procedures
- 9 Establishing a Modus Operandi Pre-War
- SECTION 3
- World War 1, 1914-18
- 10 The Security Contest
- 11 Censorship
- 12 The Press Bureau
- 13 Early Interaction Between AWOPC, Press and Press Bureau
- 14 Settling Down to a Long War
- 15 Approaching the Steady State
- 16 Continuing Tensions
- 17 The Steady State
- 18 The Final Push
- SECTION 4
- Between the World Wars, 1918-1939
- 19 Security Context
- 20 Media Context
- 21 Early World of the Committee
- 22 Middle Years Lull
- 23 Thinking About War Again
- 24 Return Towards a War Footing
- SECTION 5
- World War II: Suspended Animation, 1939-45
- 25 The Press and Censorship Bureau
- 26 The Practice of Censorship
- 27 Towards Peace
- SECTION 6
- Early Years of the Cold War, 1945-67
- 28 Security Context
- 29 Media Context
- 30 Return of the Committee
- 31 Beginning of Cold War Considerations
- 32 Korean War and Imperial Disentanglement
- 33 Equipment Disagreements
- 34 Suez Crisis, and 'War Potential'
- 35 Fallout from the Blake Case, and the Kuwait Crisis
- 36 'War Potential' Again, and the Radcliffe Report
- 37 Post-Radcliffe
- SECTION 7
- The 'Lohan' Affair, 1967
- 38 A Squall Becomes a Storm
- 39 Another Radcliffe Enquiry
- 40 The Storm Becomes a Hurricane
- 41 Rocks All Around
- 42 Lohan in the Spotlight, and Radcliffe Bites
- 43 Clearing up the Damage
- SECTION 8
- Latter Years of the Cold War, and N Ireland, 1967-90
- 44 Security, Political and Media Contexts
- 45 Revision of the Notices 1971, and Early Casework
- 46 Impact of IRA Campaign, and Protection of Official Information
- 47 Wider Concerns about the D-Notice System
- 48 The DPBC Review 1981-1982
- 49 Falklands Conflict 1982
- 50 Back to Routine Business
- 51 The 'Zircon' and 'My Country Right or Wrong' Controversies
- 52 Reform of the Official Secrets Acts
- 53 Business as Usual Again
- SECTION 9
- Post Cold War, 1990-97
- 54 Iraq, Terrorism, Modernisation
- 55 The D-Notice Review, and Spook Mania
- 56 Books, Avowal, and the Chinook Crash
- 57 Special Forces, Former Yugoslavia, Inadequate DA Notices
- 58 Media Discomfort, Northern Ireland, Early Website, and a Books Mountain
- 59 Quo Vadit?
- Appendices
- INDEX