By Subject: CENSORSHIP, OBSCENITY AND MORALITY
Censorship of books, literature
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- ‘I am a pornographer’, by K Allsop
- A decent reticence
- Lady Chatterley and the book censors of Australia
- Dear Marie (column by W J Weatherby)
- 3 Magazines can be mailed court decides Bg
- Writers’ Conference, by W Weatherby
- Authors’ disappointed with Edinburgh conference
- Three writers in the making
- Controversial classic
- Obscenity obscured, by C H Rolph
- Books that miss the bonfire
- ‘Cain’s Book’ called a work of art
- Police seized 2,683 books: content dealt with vice and
- Bible printers shun Frank Harris, by Anthony Cowdy
- On to De Sade
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- What can that bobby be up to in the bookshop?
- Doctor’s book on sex withdrawn
- O.K. for book from the ‘gents’
- Venus at large: sexuality and the limits of literature, by Jacques Barzan
- Books banned
- M.P.s’ move to get book banned
- Court case over novel confirmed
- U.S. novel ‘a collection of dirty stories’: obscenity prosecution by M.P.
- Obscenity law maybe meaningless – M.P.
- M.P. calls sex novel ‘filthy’
- This ‘brutal, filthy’ book
- Publisher M.P. says: ‘I’m horrified at this brutal and filthy book’: magistrate asked to ban the Brooklyn novel on drug-taking
- My compassion was aroused, woman publisher says: defence deny novel is obscene
- M.P. says book is ‘brutal, filthy muck’
- ‘Immoral’ books seized
- Bench orders book to be destroyed
- A book that went too far
- ‘Last Exit’ ruled to be obscene: seized copies to be destroyed
- ‘Last Exit’ snub for MP
- Chicago dispute over book
- Book ‘accussed’ again
- Obscenity? we fight
- Four books are banned
- Letter: Exploding the myth of pornography: test for books, television and press, by Maurice Girodias
- Sex and censorship: why do we seem to be moving backwards?, by Fenton Bresler
- Good clean pornography, by Gillian Freeman
- Likely to deprave and corrupt?, by Gina Richardson
- ‘Obscene’ book like Dickens, says Prof.
- Letter: link found, by Antony Grey
- Obscenity law at work
- Novel obscene says U. K. jury
- The ancient art of banning books, by Cyril Connolly
- Index to be banned, by Terry Coleman