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Record Nr.

UNINA9910917290403321

Autore

Owens Edward

Titolo

The Family Firm : Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : University of London Press, , 2019

©2019

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (524 pages)

Collana

New Historical Perspectives Series

Disciplina

659.29941084

Soggetti

Public relations and politics

Monarchy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Family Firm is the first major historical analysis of the way Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new public relations strategy in the period 1932-53. It argues that the monarchy's deliberate elevation of a more informal and vulnerable family-centred image strengthened the emotional connections that members of the public forged with the royals, and that the tightening of these bonds had a unifying effect on national life in the unstable years during and either side of the Second World War.