Acknowledgements
Books are never totally the work of one individual, and this one would never have been completed without the intellectual input and professional eye of Patricia Chilton, my wife, nor without her moral support and love. Among the many colleagues, students and friends who have influenced and encouraged this project, I am particularly grateful to Ruth Wodak, Sally Tomlinson, Bill Downes, Monika Kopytowska, Bertie Kaal and Andy Roberts. For their suggestions and advice, I also wish to thank Bernhard Forchtner at the University of Leicester, Mikhail Ilyin and his graduate student Anastasia Butakova at the Russian Higher School of Economics, Majid KhosraviNik at Newcastle University, Manuela Perteghella of the Liberal Democrats and the European Movement, Tony Simpson of the Bertrand Russell Foundation, and Franco Zappettini at the University of Liverpool.
I am very grateful to the anonymous reviewers who scrutinised the drafts and gave invaluable advice on content, presentation and style, as well as support for the project itself. Thanks are due also to Dorothy Lawrenson, who expertly copy-edited an earlier draft, weeding out many errors and infelicities. My editors at Cambridge University Press have backed this project and kept it on track from the start. Special thanks go to Helen Barton who commissioned this book and has given encouragement through all its ups and downs. Isabel Collins has provided indispensable advice and expertise, and Laura Simmons has skilfully guided the production of the book through to its public appearance. I thank also Adam Bell for his scrupulous copyediting and Narmadha Nedounsejiane at Integra Software Services for overseeing the final stages. All remaining errors and omissions are, of course, my responsibility.
This book contains numerous illustrations and tables and I want to thank a number of people who have guided and advised me along the tortuous path of contacting copyright holders. Among them are Mary Andrews of The Independent and Evening Standard; Andy Boyd of the parliamentary Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Vega Elvira at The Guardian; Verity Manning, Digital Archivist at the BBC; Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Specialist at the Bodleian Libraries; Mary Reid of Liberal Democratic Voice; Alexandre Reingatch at the Bundesarchiv; Martin Shaw of the University of Sussex and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals; Olivier Sykes at the University of Liverpool; and Matt Ward at BBC Sales and Operations Support.
For permission to reuse their graph for Figure 1.1, I thank Chris Lawton (Nottingham Trent University) and Rob Ackrill (Nottingham Trent University). For Figure 1.2, I thank Geoffrey Evans (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and Jonathan Mellon (Nuffield College and University of Manchester) for permission to reuse their bar chart. Specific acknowledgements are due to the following: The German Bundesarchiv for Figure 7.3b; The Department of Culture, Media and Sport, for Figures 6.4a and 6.4b; The Communication Directorate, Home Office, for Figure 6.2; The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Copyright (1999) National Academy of Sciences, USA, for the reuse in Figure 7.1 of the illustration in Nancy Isenberg et al. (1999), 96(18), p. 10457.
For access to many publications used in writing this book, I am indebted to the Bodleian Libraries’ online facilities. Like all scholars of the internet age, I have frequently depended on search engines, image banks, internet media, online organisations, websites and bloggers, and I am thankful for the existence of all those that ensure the diffusion of knowledge by open access.
