Simon J Potter

Simon J. Potter is professor of modern history at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on media history and imperial history, with books including News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876-1922; Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British world, 1922-1970; and Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-39. He has also published a centenary history of the BBC, This the BBC:...See more

Simon J. Potter is professor of modern history at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on media history and imperial history, with books including News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876-1922; Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British world, 1922-1970; and Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-39. He has also published a centenary history of the BBC, This the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022. See less