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Winston Churchill, the Morning Post, and the End of the Imperial Romance
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2013
- pp. 163-183
- 10.1353/vpr.2013.0016
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Winston Churchill’s Morning Post correspondence from Kitchener’s 1898 Sudan expedition documents a shift in the practice and reportage of imperialism. Sensational New Journalism and aggressive New Imperialism had been locked in a mutually-supportive relationship. Special correspondents, including Churchill, emphasised the romance of empire. However, Churchill also looked forward with trepidation to a time when “there will be no more of these nice little expeditions . . . no more peerages for the generals, no more copy for the journalists.” Kitchener’s application of military technology produced a combination of tedium and horror which challenged correspondents. Churchill’s Sudan correspondence records the end of Britain’s imperial romance.