Spitsbergen Through The Times
British mining and exploration companies were active in Spitsbergen, today Svalbard, between 1904 and 1953. This period was marked by events like the First World War and the signing of the Spitsbergen Treaty, some say Svalbard Treaty, and was therefore politically charged. This article investigates...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:040fe9508ad342f797ec20dd71c40c3a 2023-05-15T15:06:45+02:00 Spitsbergen Through The Times Frigga Kruse 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6570 https://doaj.org/article/040fe9508ad342f797ec20dd71c40c3a EN RU eng rus Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6570 https://doaj.org/toc/1500-7502 https://doaj.org/toc/1890-9671 doi:10.7557/6.6570 1500-7502 1890-9671 https://doaj.org/article/040fe9508ad342f797ec20dd71c40c3a Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, Vol 25, Iss 1 (2022) Spitsbergen Svalbard The Times coal mining Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6570 2022-12-31T02:32:43Z British mining and exploration companies were active in Spitsbergen, today Svalbard, between 1904 and 1953. This period was marked by events like the First World War and the signing of the Spitsbergen Treaty, some say Svalbard Treaty, and was therefore politically charged. This article investigates the British Arctic enterprise as portrayed in an influential newspaper, the London Times, where a diverse range of items appeared across the sections Advertising, Business, News, Editorials, and Letters to the Editor. Reports of the London Stock Exchange and the London Gazette serve as factual counterweights to potentially subjective media coverage. In four distinct phases, we see the archipelago’s emergence in global politics, post-war optimism until the settlement of all claim disputes in 1927, a quiet phase caused by global economic depression, and renewed but short-lived optimism after the Second World War. The paper concludes that the British Government took a stance in the Spitsbergen Question already in 1907, and the Times could not be instrumentalised to change this official political opinion. The study offers a baseline for new and comparative research using similar historical sources. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Svalbard Spitsbergen Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Svalbard Poljarnyj vestnik 25 1 |
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British mining and exploration companies were active in Spitsbergen, today Svalbard, between 1904 and 1953. This period was marked by events like the First World War and the signing of the Spitsbergen Treaty, some say Svalbard Treaty, and was therefore politically charged. This article investigates the British Arctic enterprise as portrayed in an influential newspaper, the London Times, where a diverse range of items appeared across the sections Advertising, Business, News, Editorials, and Letters to the Editor. Reports of the London Stock Exchange and the London Gazette serve as factual counterweights to potentially subjective media coverage. In four distinct phases, we see the archipelago’s emergence in global politics, post-war optimism until the settlement of all claim disputes in 1927, a quiet phase caused by global economic depression, and renewed but short-lived optimism after the Second World War. The paper concludes that the British Government took a stance in the Spitsbergen Question already in 1907, and the Times could not be instrumentalised to change this official political opinion. The study offers a baseline for new and comparative research using similar historical sources. |
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