Items removed from 1980 diary, 1980
Press cuttings and correspondence on subjects including: the report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship; pornography; Mary Whitehouse; Tony Garnett; Myra Hindley; a television monitoring report [2nd Hastings report]; the awarding of the CBE to Mary Whitehouse; education; Broadcasting Bill; television programme The War Game; play The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton.
Correspondents include William Whitelaw, Alvar Lidell, John Stokes, Clive Whitmore (on behalf of Margaret Thatcher), Mary Wilson, Robert Runcie, the Earl of Halsbury [Tony Giffard], Margaret Thatcher, the Rev. Basil Watson, William Rees-Mogg, the Rev. Don Humphries and Nikolai Tolstoy, among others.
Also includes: prayer card; poem Eyes... By Vision Fed by 'Geoffrey', dedicated to Mary Whitehouse.
Dates
- Creation: 1980
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 12864/27
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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