The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945-1980

by Callum G. Brown

Book Overview

Post-war British culture was initially dominated by religious-led sexual austerity and, from the sixties, by secular liberalism. Using five case studies of local licensing and a sixth on the BBC, conservative Christians are exposed here as the nation's censors, fighting effectively for purity on stage, screen and in public places. The Anglican-led Public Morality Council was astonishingly successful in restraining sex in London's media in the fifties,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108421229
• ISBN13: 9781108421225
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"