Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 29 Issue 1

Editorial 29.1: History (and professionalization) of public relations

Martina Topic

Guest editorial: History of public relations

Anastasios Theofilou, Tom Watson, Tanya Le Roux, Anastasia Veneti

The State Railway of Siam and the origin of tourism public relations in Thailand (1917–1941)

Napawan Tantivejakul

This research aims to explore the origin of tourism public relations (PR) in Thailand as practiced by the State Railway of Siam (SRS) prior to the Second World War when rail…

No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990–97) and Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

Ruth Garland

This study draws parallels between the Major and Johnson eras to reclaim a discursive space beyond the media and political battlefields to examine long-term systemic failure of…

Bernays and Goebbels: “the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”

Kerrie Milburn

The purpose of the article is to examine whether, if Bernays can be cast as “Dr Jekyll”, the personification of “good”, respectable public relations, and Goebbels as “Mr Hyde”…

Football (soccer?) on campus. Examining the historical development and promotion of the world’s most popular sport through transatlantic university comparisons

Tom Isaacson, Anastasios Theofilou

Football is the world's most popular sport and the role of football on campus is of interest to university public relations (PR) and management professionals tasked with…

Public relations education, 1950s–1990s: the IPRA perspective

Tom Watson

The aim of this article is the exploration of historical themes that formed education and training in public relations and corporate communication. Its timeline is from the early…

Recognising a signature pedagogy for public relations teaching and learning in the last twenty years

Susan Lilico Kinnear, Sarah Bowman

This study attempts to identify the drivers for change in Public Relations education and what assumptions are made about professional practice. The authors suggest signature…

Developing an original Café Delphi historical method to research women's individual and collective experiences of sex, sexuality and sexism in PR in the 1990s

Sarah Bowman, Heather Yaxley

This paper aims to develop an original Café Delphi historical method to research women's individual and collective experiences of sex, sexuality and sexism in public relations…