Public Relations Versus Propaganda: Communication and the Marian Regime.

The reign of England's Mary Tudor has long been examined by historians for her regime's extensive use of propaganda to attempt to convert her populace from Protestantism to Catholicism. These explorations, however, ignore the regime's employment of other communications strategies, particularly public relations, as key components of its conversion efforts. This paper furthers the discussion of how propaganda and public relations are differentiated and examines and reinterprets the Marian government's activities from a public relations perspective with the goal of continuing to establish a more comprehensive history of public relations and to explore the impact of public relations activities versus pure propagandistic techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]