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- Title
Buy your own Shipboard Wireless! Advertisements in the British Officers’ Trade Union Journal, 1950s and 1960s.
- Abstract
The article discusses British advertisements published in the 1950s and 1960s featuring personal wireless equipment for the use of sailors. The advertisements appeared in the periodical "Merchant Navy Journal." It considers how such advertisements portray seafaring life, compare such ideas with actual experiences of sailors, and considers the use of entertainment systems versus radios aboard ships.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; RADIOS; SEAFARING life; SAILORS; 20TH century maritime history; ADVERTISING; REIGN of Elizabeth II, Great Britain, 1952-2022; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
International Journal of Maritime History, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 4, p789
- ISSN
0843-8714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0843871414552612