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This conclusion offers a short assessment of the life of Sir Philip Gibbs and assesses his place in the history of war journalism. It offers a more nuanced understanding of the work of war correspondents and looks to place the book in the context of further scholarship regarding the role of the media, censorship, government/press relations, and the social and political situation in Europe 1902–1962.
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Notes
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Obituary, No details, March 1962, Courtesy Gibbs Family Archives.
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P Gibbs (1923) Adventures in Journalism (London: Harper and Brothers Publishers), p. 1.
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P Gibbs (1946) The Pageant of the Years (London: Heinemann), p. 522.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 27.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, pp. 529–30.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 513.
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Philip Collins (1995) Dickens: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), p. 525.
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Collins P (1995) Dickens: the critical heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
Gibbs P (1923a) Adventures in journalism. Harper, London
Gibbs P (1946) The pageant of the years. Heinemann, London
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Kerby, M.C. (2016). Conclusion. In: Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57301-8_7
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