Stephen George Tallents

Stephen George Tallents (Propagandist)

Affiliations

• Empire Marketing Board (1926-1933)
• Post Office (GPO) 1933
• BBC, (where he was Deputy Director General under Lord Reith)
• Ministry of Information
• After the Second World War he became founder President of The Institute of Public Relations
• Royal Society of Artists
• Royal Institute of British Architects
• the Society of Industrial Artists
• Design Industries Association
• member of the Committee of Enquiry into the Future of the British Film Institute (1948), which was 'instrumental in modernising the BFI and securing its government funding.'

Publications

• The Projection of England (1933), which 'argued for the creation of a school for 'national projection' - a propaganda body that would defend the British 'sense of fair play' from the challenges of America, fascist Europe and the Soviet Union.'

Further reading

• Tallents, Sir Stephen (1884-1958)