Cromwellian England

A Propaganda State

Bibliographic Data

ID9880997
AuthorsJason Peacey (0000-0001-9197-7770, Parliament of United Kingdom, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume91
Issue302
Pages176-199
Publication date2006-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-229x.2006.00362.x
OpenAlexW1992732930
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

This article explores the attitude to the press on the part of Oliver Cromwell and his chief ministers in terms of press control and propaganda and in terms of the theory and the practice of government policy. It examines whether the regime sought and whether it was able to achieve strict press control through pre‐publication censorship and swift and severe punishment of malefactors as well as effective and pervasive propaganda, which was centrally organized, controlled, funded, and distributed. It argues that between 1653 and 1659 profound changes were implemented regarding intelligence‐gathering, press censorship and propaganda in the deployment of resources and bureaucratic efficiency, not least by centralizing power in the hands of the secretary of state, even if the regime sought to exert its power in only some areas of print culture rather than to achieve a complete press monopoly

Bureaucracy · Censorship · Control (management · Economics · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Management · Market economy · Media studies · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Software deployment · State (computer science · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies of British Isles · Law · Public Administration · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity

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