Spitsbergen Through The Times: Intertwined British Mining and Politics in the London Daily Newspaper
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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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/6570 2023-05-15T15:05:57+02:00 Spitsbergen Through The Times: Intertwined British Mining and Politics in the London Daily Newspaper Kruse, Frigga 2022-06-16 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6570 https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6570 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6570/6604 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6570 doi:10.7557/6.6570 Copyright (c) 2022 Frigga Kruse https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Poljarnyj vestnik; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 5–31 Poljarnyj Vestnik; Vol 25 Nr. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 5–31 1890-9671 1500-7502 Spitsbergen Svalbard The Times coal mining Шпицберген горное дело газета The Times info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Refereed article 2022 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6570 2022-06-29T22:59:11Z 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 University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing 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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Spitsbergen Through The Times: Intertwined British Mining and Politics in the London Daily Newspaper |
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Spitsbergen Through The Times: Intertwined British Mining and Politics in the London Daily Newspaper |
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spitsbergen through the times: intertwined british mining and politics in the london daily newspaper |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6570 https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6570 |
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Poljarnyj vestnik; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 5–31 Poljarnyj Vestnik; Vol 25 Nr. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 5–31 1890-9671 1500-7502 |
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