| Description | Minutes of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Public Relations Committee c. 20 pages of cut and pasted typed text.
Meetings held 25 June 1955; 15 October 1955; 17 Dec 1955; 28 Jan 1956; 30 June 1956 (reconstituted committee); 15 September 1956; 24 November 1956
Details contained inside are mostly concerning:
Appointments to the committee, medicine and psychology, relations with psychiatrists, press cuttings, broadcasting, television, reporting of British Psychological Society (BPS) meetings, proposal for a permanent commitee and a press office, , communication and election of Mr. J.C.Kenna as Honorary Archivist of the British Psychological Society (BPS) 1956.
Formerly in BPS/001/4 BPS Committees |
| AdminHistory | The first report on public relations was in 1946 by T H Pear [see BPS Council Papers 25 May 1946].
The first British Psychological Society Public Relations Committee was started in 1955 writing a report for Council in 1956.
In 1971 Nicholas Georgiades and Professor Arthur Summerfield arranged a press conference at Brown's Hotel to draw attention to the BPS response to Sir John Foster's report on Scientology [See BPS/001/4/01/03/01]. After advice from Mr Christopher Hall, Barbara Castle's Information officer on setting up a press function - a Standing Press Committee was formed in October 1971 under the Chairmanship of Dr Georgiades - they produced press releases and started recruiting spokespeople and setting up a media training courses for them - the first of which was held in June 1972. Early press efforts were concentrated on promoting the conferences and journal articles but later encompassed promoting BPS policy, positions, activities and the profession of psychology. |
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