ABSTRACT
This chapter continues looking at PR as propaganda for the interests of its producers, but particularly from the UK perspective. Although Simmons (1991) has argued railways in Britain were doing what we call PR from the mid-Victorian period (lobbying, setting up an industry representative body,1 talking to the press), it is generally held that the UK PR industry is younger than the US, getting established in the 1920s. Whether that is right or wrong, it is clear that early influential PR people2 in the UK, all of whom were associated with either business, government or official bodies, viewed their work in a similar light to their US colleagues. They saw PR propagandistically: it was controlled communication for their goals of commercial, social and political management.
