Items removed from 1983 diary, bulk: Bulk, 1983, [1973], 1983
File
MS. 12864/33
Held in our offsite storage facility
Press cuttings and correspondence on subjects including: the BBC; Mary Whitehouse; R18 films; book The Playbook for Kids about Sex by Joani Blank; video nasties; pornography; Christopher Whitehouse's arrest for cannabis possession; book A Most Dangerous Woman? by Mary Whitehouse; poem Arsehole by Craig Raine; cable TV; obscenity laws; computer games; General Election; broadcast of film Scum on Channel 4; television film Birth of a Nation; proposed Video Recordings Act; biography of Sir Hugh Greene by Michael Tracey; film The Day After.
Correspondents include Willie Whitelaw, Michael Havers, Sir Thomas Hetherington, James Nursaw, Ted Willis, Alan King-Hamilton, John Smyth, Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Gordon Hobday, Sir Hugh Greene, Anthony Howard, Robert Fellowes (on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II: CLOSED), Robert [Runcie], Rivers Scott and Richard Nugent, among others.
Also includes: photocopy of programme for the official opening of Kimiora [in 1973]; draft article on gardening by Mary Whitehouse; photocopy of extract on law, democracy and the citizen from the Conservative Party Election Manifesto; statement to the press on video nasties; notecard with lines from a mediaeval French passion play; handwritten poem; programme for the Royal Television Society Cambridge Conference; flyer for a talk by Mary Whitehouse on video nasties; copy of statement in open court for High Court case between Mary Whitehouse and The Observer Limited.
Correspondents include Willie Whitelaw, Michael Havers, Sir Thomas Hetherington, James Nursaw, Ted Willis, Alan King-Hamilton, John Smyth, Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Gordon Hobday, Sir Hugh Greene, Anthony Howard, Robert Fellowes (on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II: CLOSED), Robert [Runcie], Rivers Scott and Richard Nugent, among others.
Also includes: photocopy of programme for the official opening of Kimiora [in 1973]; draft article on gardening by Mary Whitehouse; photocopy of extract on law, democracy and the citizen from the Conservative Party Election Manifesto; statement to the press on video nasties; notecard with lines from a mediaeval French passion play; handwritten poem; programme for the Royal Television Society Cambridge Conference; flyer for a talk by Mary Whitehouse on video nasties; copy of statement in open court for High Court case between Mary Whitehouse and The Observer Limited.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found in Bulk, 1983
- Creation: [1973], 1983
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
Some material (one letter) is closed.
Shelfmark
MS. 12864/33
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk