Phil Taylor's papers

Professor Phil Taylor, Professor of International Communications, one of the field's outstanding scholars and a founding member of the Institute, died in December 2010.

Phil graduated from Leeds with a First in History in 1975 followed, in 1978, by a PhD. In the same year, he was appointed as Lecturer in the School of History and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1987. Phil was seconded as Deputy Director to the Institute of Communications Studies in 1990, this position becoming permanent in 1993, along with his promotion to Reader. In 1998 he was appointed to a Chair of International Communications and was Head of the Institute until 2002.

Phil was an internationally renowned scholar of international communications and propaganda, a charismatic and popular teacher, and an excellent colleague.

From 1995, Phil maintained a website to serve as a key resource for matters relating to:

• International and Strategic Communications
• Propaganda and the global 'war' on terror
• Military-Media Relations
• Public Diplomacy
• Psychological Operations, Information Warfare & Information Operations
• War Reporting

In 2014, the School of Media and Communication archived the contents of that site here.

Site Contents

A complete index of the site is available here

• Professor Taylor's professional biography and complete list of publications (6 items)
• Some Taylor publications and media output (36 items)
• Powerpoint Lectures & Presentations & Teaching Materials by Prof Taylor (46 items)
• Must-Reads on This Website - Nominate a read by emailing me (25 items)
• Professor Gary Rawnsley's website (with resources, inter alia, on Asian propaganda) (1 item)
• PROPAGANDA - General (theory, practice and history) (104 items)
• PSYOPS IN IRAQ 2003-6 (61 items)
• PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOPS) - General. Rebranded 2010 as MISO (92 items)
• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY (PD) and CULTURAL DIPLOMACY (CD) (309 items)
• INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING (see also Public Diplomacy) (123 items)
• INFORMATION WARFARE (IW) & INFORMATION OPERATIONS (IO) - see also PSYOPS (141 items)
• 'NATION BUILDING' & CIVIL-MILITARY AFFAIRS (including CIMIC) (69 items)
• MILITARY-MEDIA RELATIONS (194 items)
• WAR & CRISIS REPORTING (223 items)
• Propaganda and Iraq 2003 to date: an introduction and timeline (1 item)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GLOBAL 'WAR' ON TERROR (GWOT) Years 1 and 2, ie 9/11-2003 (204 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GWOT Year 3 - 2004 (mainly Iraq) (189 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GWOT Year 4 - 2005 (192 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GWOT Year 5 - 2006 (64 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GWOT Year 6 - 2007 (46 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE GWOT (NOW 'THE LONG WAR') Year 7 - 2008 (44 items)
• PROPAGANDA AND THE LONG WAR - Year 8 - 2009 (17 items)
• THE END OF THE WAR ON TERROR? (31 items)
• PROPAGANDA 'OWN GOALS' IN THE GWOT (86 items)
• TALIBAN & AL QAIDA PROPAGANDA (including the 'bin Laden Tapes' & AQ statements) with analysis (82 items)
• STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS c. 2006 onwards (28 items)
• British/American Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism (52 items)
• The Bush Doctrine - Key Speeches & Analysis (101 items)
• Military Recruitment Videos (1 item)
• Al Jazeera controversy (34 items)
• War and Representations of War in the Media (14 items)
• War, Film & History (24 items)
• Public Opinion (41 items)
• The Gulf War of 1991 (34 items)
• Somalia, 1992-3 (8 items)
• The Balkans conflicts of the 1990s (29 items)
• The Kosovo conflict 1999 (86 items)
• Forgotten Wars (14 items)
• Useful publications by other authors (63 items)
• Libraries & Archives (1 item)
• On-line journals (2 items)
• Links to Military Resources (5 items)
• Links to News Organisations (3 items)
• Relevant Blog Sites (9 items)
• The Far Side - sick or psycopath(et)ic? (9 items)
• Blackadder II scripts (6 items)
• Blackadder the Third Scripts (6 items)
• Blackadder Goes Forth Scripts (6 items)
• Blackadder's Christmas Special (1 item)
• Thoughts of the Week (2 items)
• About this site (1 item)