By Year: 1959
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- Wolfenden reconsidered-1, by N St John Stevas
- Wolfenden reconsidered-2, by H Vane
- Damaging to government - alarming to Commons
- Letter:Sign of decay, by D L Thomas
- Letter: Homosexual laws must be changed, by A Hallidie Smith
- Letter: Government and the public are wrong, by D A Kepper
- A Spectator’s notebook
- Letter: [no title], by J Aspland
- Letter: [no title], by D Parker
- Letter: Wolfenden debate, by Michael Foot
- Cambridge decision this month on Churchill College
- Just nosey, he stayed to watch
- Bench order remand
- Traveller fined £50 in city
- [headline missing]
- Knowle man
- Tragic background to indecency charge
- Gross indency charges: 13 men for trial
- Police kept watch on lavatory
- Letter: Homosexuality, by A Hallidie Smith
- Blackmailer 'bled' In terror of phone
- He met a dark stranger and was blackmailed for 2½ long years, by L Kirby
- £8,800 by "slow torture": seven years for blackmailer
- His years of torture end
- £8,800 obtained by blackmail: 7-year sentence
- The man afraid of a ring at the door, by A Latcham
- Set the people free
- Letter: Soho spider’s web, by M Kildare
- A peep-hole in the town hall floor
- The ‘imprudent’ visitor to London is acquitted
- A slow, calculated merciless process of torture…
- A plea for the ex-organist
- Bow Group attack on puritanism
- Puritan - and Tory
- [headline missing]
- Mr Hyde is chosen - N Belfast ballot
- Recalcitrant Tories [editorial]
- “Pen pal” clubs: criticised at Berks Assizes
- The breeding places of crime [editorial]
- Letter: The cripple does not cripple others, by D L Thomas
- Letter: Protest, by W E Dane
- Kendal indecency charges: Assizes reference to “chain reaction”
- Six Frome men charged: unnatural offences alleged: two kept in custody
- Investigate this pen-pal club says judge
- Letter: Prison not solution to social problem, by R Walsh
- Letter: Homosexual report, by G Gowan
- Shadow of Wolfenden (editorial)
- A doctor’s amazing discovery
- Letter: Vermin, by W E Dane
- [headline missing] [column]
- Havelock Ellis today, by A Comfort
- ‘Slow ahead’, by K Younger
- A mental defective: Assize decision in case from Penzance
- Remands Penzance: thirty offences listed in one case
- Unionists reject Mr Hyde: Belfast nomination
- Letter: Shadow of Wolfenden, by R F Johnson
- Letter: Shadow of Wolfenden, by A James
- [HLRS small ad]
- Letter: Traffic in pornography: the “abnormal” people, by G Lines
- Letter: Traffic in pornography: the “abnormal” people, by N Walter
- Letter: Traffic in pornography: the “abnormal” people, by M Bourne
- Letter: Addiction to pornography: a plea for charity, by R Conquest
- Letter: Addiction to pornography: a plea for charity, by D E Pearson
- Letter: Addiction to pornography: a plea for charity, by N Epton
- Marriage a la mode [editorial]
- Student talks of night at the manse
- Two of the tweed set
- From floral dress to grey suit
- Photos a wife passed on
- Morality and the law, by G Williams
- Letter: Traffic in pornography: censorship favours abnormality, by A Comfort
- German film’s X certificate: “The Third Sex”
- Credible triangle: talkative play well suited to radio
- So sinister
- Pompous
- Mixed up sex
- Letter: Traffic in pornography, by D Holbrook
- This subject deserves sensible argument, by P Dehn
- Letter: Shadow of Wolfenden, by A E G Wright
- The Third Sex, by D Powell
- The German film The Third Sex, by C A Lejeune
- Young liberals’ pride in “New Orbits”
- Not before the children, by D Powell
- Montgomery Hyde sees supporters
- Sex deciders
- Mr Montgomery Hyde appeals over ending of candidature
- Letter: This is not natural way of life, by C Nicholas
- Why did he do it?, by A J P Taylor
- Letter: British film censorship, by P Baker
- Letter: Crime and sin, by A H Wyatt
- Mr Phillips must serve on jury: exemption refused
- Letter: Punishment for vice offenders, by G Hilbinger
- Absolute discharge for solicitor
- [column] by J Gordon
- Trouble all the way
- John Cranko fined
- Men sent for trial on indecency charge
- John Deane Potter’s charges: a reply, by J Osborne
- For / Against John Deane Potter
- Student and labourer for trial
- In terms of human happiness I feel you can't rate this 'break-through' too highly, by Peter Fairlie
- [column], by Pharos
- Former youth officer sent to jail: assize trial of Frome offenders
- Homosexuality and Cambridge: 'Varsity' Enquiry
- The outlawed and the persecuted, by A Hallidie Smith
- Freedom from fear: a request, by 'a Cambridge undergraduate'
- 3,000 homosexuals? Town and gown
- Analysis or Injections?, by B Davey
- Depression and worry: the tutorial approach
- Dangers of toleration, by W Shepherd M.P.
- Chaplain - individual advice
- £25 Fines on student and rigger
- Letter: Homosexuality, by
- Letter: Homosexuality, by A E G Wright
- Letter: Homosexuality, by
- Letter: Homosexuality, by C G Harrison
- He saw emotional film, man told police: fined for soliciting
- Letters column
- Categories [column], by P Simple
- Sentenced for indecency
- [advert for HLRS]
- His life in ruins
- Statement sought from proctors: attitude to discussion on homosexuality
- Homosexuals: why we’re not ready for a new law yet
- Men and youths sent for trial
- Two Notts men for trial
- Proctors’ answer to “Varsity” query
- 24 Vice cases at Oxford
- Students fined after vice swoop: three Oxford girls jailed
- The British radicalin 1959, by P Toynbee
- Letter: In need of help, by A Hallidie Smith
- Steps to ban private pornographic films
- Scotland and the Wolfenden Report: Growing problem of the homosexual, by G Turner
- Letter: “Vice” prosections, by A E G Wright
- Letter: Social system must be changed, by G Hilbinger
- Scotland and the Wolfenden Report: Control must come before cure, by G Turner
- Scotland and the Wolfenden Report: Church has a major role to play, by G Turner
- Letter: Homosexuals and the courts, by A E G Wright
- Letter: Punishment, by A Hallidie Smith
- Criminal cause and effect, by Sir John Wolfenden
- Letter: Reform of cruel law, by K Walker and 8 others
- Five men admit offences: Devon Assize cases
- Letter: Reactionary views, by I Hamnett
- Letter: Treating the homosexual, by “Psychiatrist”
- Letter: Unquestioning assumption, by J L Broom
- Letter: Let average man speak on sex problems, by A C Hyde Lay
- Letter: Not the law’s business: doctrine which Wolfenden Committee upheld, by A E G Wright
- Letter: An evil thing, by G F Sinclair
- Letter: An evil thing, by J Morrison
- Letter: One-sided survey, by S H MacIntosh
- Letter: One-sided survey, by D J Wright
- Letter: Cure is natural and permanent, by D Robertson
- Letter: Cure is natural and permanent, by J H Mackay
- Letter: A.I.D., by J F Bayne
- Letter: Suppression of vice, by J Morrison
- Letter: Homosexuals and the courts, by “Expatriate”
- Letter: Homosexuals and the courts, by R Butterworth
- Letter: Safely locked up, by G A Comb
- Letter: An evil thing, by R Holloway
- Letter: An evil thing, by W D Laird
- Letter: Smear techniques, by G Robertson
- Letter: Scotland and Wolfenden Report, by G Turner
- Letter: Supporters of the Wolfenden Report, by A E Dyson
- Letter: Supporters of the Wolfenden Report, by C Mackenzie
- Letter: Denying our Christian heritage, by L Marsh
- Mental patient fallacy: sex crime figures
- Sexual Offenders [parliamentary report]
- Letter: Denying our Christian heritage, by L Marsh
- Ex-batman Is bound over for 20 years: blackmail case
- Immorality and treason, by H L A Hart
- Is there a secret society in the theatre?: showpiece, by Leslie Mallory
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by A Horsfall
- Letter: Homosexuals and the law, by M Goff
- Letter: [title missing], by R L Archdale
- Four committed to sessions
- Homosexuality 'on the increase'
- Clergyman's ex-valet
- Two men fined £15 each
- Teacher and P.C. for trial
- Letter: [title missing], by D Slee
- Letter: Street offences, by S Stokes
- Letter: Chastity, by 'Dispassionate'
- Letter: [title missing], by B Thompson
- Letter: [title missing], by A Hallidie Smith
- Homo went to police out of pique
- Sorry to see so many of these cases
- Swindon hotel proprietor released on bail
- Conditional discharge
- Three years probation
- Two are acquitted
- Ex-petty officer is fined £20
- Letter: Street offences, by C Allen
- Letter: Street offences, by J R Pole
- Mechanic, clerk each fined £20
- Teacher's offence
- Clerk loses job and pension: fined for assault on P.C.
- [headline missing]
- Letter: [title missing], by S Stokes
- Letter: [title missing], by H Smith
- Letter: Two cases, by A Hallidie Smith
- Morals, public and private
- Two fined
- Letter: [title missing], by C Fremlin
- Letter: Reform of the law on homosexuality, by K Walker
- Letter: (headline missing), by 'Empiricist'
- Letter: Homosexuality, by R A H Jones
- Letter: The law and homosexuality: why Is reform held up?, by K Walker
- Letter: Treatment of crime, by N N Pringle
- Letter: Homosexuality, by M H M Harrison
- Letter: (headline missing), by C G Learoyd
- Letter: (headline missing), by J A Waycott
- Letter: Homosexuality, by 'Empiricist'
- Letter: (headline missing), by 'W.S.'
- Letter: [headline missing], by G E G Williams
- Letter: Street offences, by F Mackarill
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by H G Dowler
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by H Walker
- Stripped and robbed man In forest
- Letter: (headline missing), by H Ogilvie
- Teletime, by P Marshall
- Letter: Primate's view of sin and crime:
- Letter: Primate's view of sin and crime:
- Court goes to bedside
- Letter: (headline missing), by M B Reddington
- [headline missing]
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by C G Learoyd
- Letter: Sin and crime, by E H Hanson
- Letter: Sin and crime, by C Challen
- Johnnie Ray acquitted
- Letter: Sin and crime, by A Hallidie Smith
- Letter: Reform of the law on homosexuality, by K Walker
- Letter: Reform of the law on homosexuality, by J F Tuthill
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by M B Reddington
- Letter: (headline missing), by C G Learoyd
- Male homosexuality, by 'A Medical Practitioner'
- Homosexuality and the law (editorial)
- Mr. Butler (Wolfenden Report)
- A boy's 'Step In the right direction'
- Sink lower
- [no headline]
- Letter: (headline missing), by A Hallidie Smith
- Letter: Homosexuality and the law, by W M Wilson