Simon Potter is a leading expert on the history of mass media in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published extensively on the role of newspapers and news agencies in linking up the component parts of the ‘British world’ (Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and on the role of the BBC both before and after the Second World War. Simon Potter has also published insightful theoretical papers on issues of globalization, networks and modernity in relation to mass media, including the highly recommended article ‘Webs, Networks, and Systems: Globalization and the Mass Media in the Nineteenth? and Twentieth?Century British Empire’ Journal of British studies, 46:3 (2007), 621-43, see:

www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/515446

In his paper Dr Potter will draw together some of the wider points to arise from his research with an emphasis on transnationalism andmodernity.

 The seminar is open to graduate students and staff. Those without primary affiliation to ‘Transnational Modernities’ are kindly requested to register by sending an email to