Representing Coal Famine: Energy Crises and the British Press, 1870-1920

这个项目的重点是如何在报纸和期刊上讨论煤炭短缺和能源价格高企的问题。它将1872-3年、1900年和1921年的“煤炭饥荒”作为核心案例研究，但将更广泛地反映从维多利亚时代中期到21世纪的能源危机的新闻报道。在探索新闻文章和其他媒体来源(如卡通、诗句)的格式和语言时，本论文将特别调查燃料贫困的表现，以及消费者痛苦如何被用于慈善目的和与责任分配有关的方式。

This project focuses on how coal shortages and high energy prices were discussed in the newspaper and periodical press. It considers the 1872-3, 1900 and 1921 'coal famines' as core case studies, but will reflect more widely on journalistic representation of energy crisis from the mid-Victorian period to the twenty-first century. In exploring the format and language both of news articles and of other media sources (e.g. cartoons, verse), this thesis will particularly investigate the representation of fuel poverty, and the ways in which consumer suffering was leveraged both for charitable ends, and in relation to assigning blame.