.... Originality/value – The paper brings to light previously unpublished opinions and perspectives from the post-war era. History provides insights into the past through the recovery and interpretation of remaining evidence. Historians synthesise events through contextualised description that uncovers...

... to present a detailed and revisionist history of PR education in Australia in its foundation decades. Findings – This paper, which locates Australia's first PRE initiatives in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1960s, contests the only published account of PR education history by Potts (1976...

... the republican movement and the accompanying PR developments throughout the historical period under review. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Public relations Terrorism History Political parties Agreements Peace Propaganda Human rights Northern Ireland These phases...

...Tom Watson; Donald K. Wright Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the history and development of public relations education in the USA and Canada. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology used for this paper is the historical/critical analysis...

... The paper attempts to cover the gap in an interactive relationship between two disciplines: communication studies and public relations. It contributes to the knowledge of historical development of public relations as an academic discipline. Public relations Public opinion History United States...

... the 1980s (Arceo, 2006 , p. 117), the confusion between the business of sales and advertising, and PR throughout its history (Adecec, 1996 , pp. 25‐26), ignorance of its true features among those who work in the field (Arceo, 2004b , p. 51) and, as a result, an unfair lack of prestige for the term which...

... and professor and chair of the public relations department at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, to launch a women's history archive project in 2002 to begin collecting women's papers and to promote the historical importance of preserving them (PR Week, 2002) [1...

...Tom Watson; Jacquie L'Etang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that public relations (PR) history‐writing has profoundly shaped the discipline and that its US bias may have limited theoretical developments. The author aims to explore the challenges in writing PR history and to consider...

... status. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003 Ethics Public relations History Education Professionalisation Occupational identity The myth of the ethical guardian : An examination of its origins, potency and illusions Received (in revised form): 12th May, 2003 Jacquie L Etang...

...Jacquie L’Etang This paper reviews the history of public relations (PR) education in the UK in the context of the process of professionalisation. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, it describes the criteria for an occupation to be accorded professional status and the role of education...