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By Year: 1966

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01/01/1966 Letter: the Celtic world, by V Lewis
01/01/1966 Letter: boys will be boys, by Antony Grey
01/01/1966 Manner of speaking, by John Cardi
01/01/1966 Letter: homosexuality: the opposing views: ‘no change plea’, by F W Gurney
01/01/1966 Letter: homosexuality: the opposing views: ‘enlightened understanding’, by Eric Vernon
01/01/1966 Letter: homosexuality: the opposing views: endangering the fabric, by A E G Wright
01/01/1966 Letter: homosexuality: the opposing views: ‘prejudiced thinking’, by F G Lyne, Birmingham Humanist Group
01/01/1966 Letter: of love and hate, by Harvey Laudin
02/01/1966 Student informers: trapping homosexuals
02/01/1966 Letter: a blackmailers’ charter’, by Antony Grey
03/01/1966 Letter: liberal – and a Tory – vision, by Tim Keigwin
04/01/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
08/01/1966 Execute homosexuals church paper advises
08/01/1966 Letter; homosexuality and left-handedness
09/01/1966 Jenkins prepares big law reforms, by James Margach
10/01/1966 Letter: guiding politicians, by G S
11/01/1966 ‘Drive to make men effeminate’
11/01/1966 Letter: to tell or not to tell, by Elizabeth Farnham
12/01/1966 Open-prison bombshell: long-term men for Kirkham?
14/01/1966 His own book rises up to plague him
15/01/1966 Review of The Morality of the Criminal Law, by H L A Hart, by Florence O’ Donoghue
17/01/1966 Letter: lives distorted, by Alan Horsfall
22/01/1966 Different approach to social problem Letter: truth or trash, by Clarence A Tripp
24/01/1966 The Home office under new management
25/01/1966 Sexual rights forum
27/01/1966 Outcasts by law, by D L Howard
27/01/1966 Computerising sex: review by Tony Parker of Women’s Prison: sex and social structure, by David A Ward and Gene G Kassebaum
28/01/1966 The sweet success of smell
28/01/1966 M.P.'s bill is published
28/01/1966 Letter: guidance, by Mary Newman
29/01/1966 Grimond helps sex bill
29/01/1966 Tory M.P.s’ bill on homosexual law reform
29/01/1966 Grimond joins campaign
29/01/1966 MPs back new bill
30/01/1966 By a short head
01/02/1966 MPs line up with educated public
01/02/1966 25 Ministers vote for bill
01/02/1966 (review of ‘Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality: A comparative study of three types of homosexuals’, by Michael Schofield)
01/02/1966 Legalised corruption of our manhood
01/02/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by J Sinclair
03/02/1966 Homosensuality (sic)
04/02/1966 A new deal for the homosexual, by Christopher Chataway, MP
04/02/1966 Neutral approach
04/02/1966 Letter: vote please Mr Johnson, by R J Groves
04/02/1966 Hampered by law – social worker
04/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by R J Groves
04/02/1966 Homosexuality: reform at last?, by C H Rolph
04/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals, by Harold T Barrow
04/02/1966 Letter: charity and moral law, by Freda Rees
04/02/1966 Letter: charity and moral law, by Mona Krupp
04/02/1966 Letter: charity and moral law, by Quentin de la Bedoyere
04/02/1966 They want law reform
04/02/1966 Letter: truth or trash, by Clarence A Tripp
04/02/1966 Letter: truth or trash, by Isadore Rubin
04/02/1966 Letter: truth or trash, by Shane L Zenian
04/02/1966 Letter: truth or trash, by Marianne Bergler
04/02/1966 Letter: truth or trash, by David Jones
05/02/1966 Letter: “Oppose the homosexual bill”, by J Sinclair
05/02/1966 Letter to agony aunt: am I gay?
06/02/1966 MPs get a mystery ‘whip’
06/02/1966 Sunday morning with Mandrake: for Queen, country and the rope!
06/02/1966 1,600 graduates sigh Oxford petition
06/02/1966 Labour’s aristocrat
06/02/1966 Tories make secret move against change in homosexual law, by Nora Beloff
06/02/1966 Editorial: a just reform
07/02/1966 Unsigned advice to some M.P.s: vote urged against homosexual bill
07/02/1966 ‘Second thoughts by some’ on the homosexual bill
07/02/1966 Unsigned note angers M.P.s
07/02/1966 500 in plea to premier
07/02/1966 Wolfenden petition presented
07/02/1966 Editorial: time to act
07/02/1966 Call to reform homosexual law
07/02/1966 Make proposals law, PM urged
07/02/1966 500 sign plea to Wilson
07/02/1966 “Reform homosexual law” call
07/02/1966 Petition with 500 signatures
07/02/1966 Call for homosexual law reform
07/02/1966 Bishops sign petition
07/02/1966 Message to P.M. bears 500 names
08/02/1966 ‘Alter law on homosexuals’: call to Premier
08/02/1966 500 ask for law reform
08/02/1966 Tory M.P.s admit unofficial ‘whip’against sex bill
08/02/1966 M.P.s regret error in whip
08/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Rev. David J Blood
08/02/1966 Tory opponents of homosexual bill modify their line
08/02/1966 500 eminent Britons assail homosexuality law
08/02/1966 (column by Iain Macleod)
08/02/1966 Petition asks for sex law change
08/02/1966 500 sign homosexual petition
08/02/1966 Monica Furlong: which are us is sexually SANE?
08/02/1966 500 tell Wilson ‘change law on homosexuality’
08/02/1966 Tory opponents of homosexual bill modify their line
08/02/1966 British leaders urge new homosexual law
08/02/1966 Sex law plea goes to Mr Wilson
08/02/1966 M.P.s regret error in whip
08/02/1966 Bishops back reform of vice law, by Antony Slade
08/02/1966 Homosexual law plea
08/02/1966 (mention of gay law reform)
08/02/1966 Homosexual law reform plea goes to Mr Wilson
08/02/1966 Homosexual law petition
09/02/1966 A free vote
09/02/1966 Students petition on homosexuality
09/02/1966 57 majority for reform on homosexuality: hard won victory against indignant critics
09/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Antony Grey
09/02/1966 Oxford petition for Westminster
09/02/1966 (unidentified column)
09/02/1966 U.K. petition on homosexual behaviour
09/02/1966 Case for reform?
10/02/1966 Letter: A Q. C. opposes homosexuality law reform, by J P Eddy
10/02/1966 Letter: Mr Berkeley’s bill, by A J Ayer; Donald Ebor; Richard Elwes; Dora Gaitskell; James of Rusholme; Radcliffe; Soper; George Strauss; Richard Wood
10/02/1966 Support for Bill
10/02/1966 Sussex undergraduates lobby MPs: Sexual Offences Bill petition
10/02/1966 Supporters
10/02/1966 The ‘answers’ to youthful morality
10/02/1966 Westminster date
10/02/1966 Dr. Ramsay attacks abortion clause
11/02/1966 How free can we set the people, by WF Deedes, M.P.
11/02/1966 Mr Berkekey’s bill
11/02/1966 MPs hear plea for sex law change, by Arnold Turvey
11/02/1966 Homosexual bill debate
11/02/1966 Must I bury another man because of this hypocrisy and humbug?, by the Bishop of Southwark the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood
11/02/1966 Letter: Consenting adults, by Colin MacInnes
11/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Giles Playfair
11/02/1966 Thank God if you are not homosexual: MP
11/02/1966 Many bishops back homosexual plea
11/02/1966 Govt. ‘neutral’to law change
11/02/1966 Homosexuals: ‘thank God you are not one’ – M.P.
11/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Cranbrook
11/02/1966 Compassion plea to change law on homosexuality
11/02/1966 ‘Thank God if you’re not . . .’, says MP: Sexual Offences Bill
11/02/1966 Second reading
11/02/1966 ‘Justice’ plea on law reform bill
11/02/1966 M. P. moves his Bill
11/02/1966 Thank God you’re not – MP
11/02/1966 Commons consider ‘sex’ Bill
11/02/1966 Thank God you’re not one of the 5p.c. – MP
11/02/1966 Thank God you don’t belong to this five per cent: MP tells Bill’s opponents
11/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Ivan Geffen
11/02/1966 Private members’ revolt: social reforms
11/02/1966 ‘Change law on homosexuality’
11/02/1966 Not a legal issue
11/02/1966 Thank God you are not homosexual – says MP
11/02/1966 M.P. pleads for ‘compassionate’ change in law
11/02/1966 ‘Thank God if you are not homosexual’, says M.P.
11/02/1966 Legal brains trust
11/02/1966 Jenkins backs sex law bill: free vote, MPs told as government stays neutral
11/02/1966 MPs hear plea for sex law change, by Arnold Turvey
11/02/1966 Bath M.P. intervenes in sex bill debate
11/02/1966 Homosexuals: a plea to change the law
11/02/1966 Plea to change the law
11/02/1966 Bishop supports sexual law reform
11/02/1966 ‘Thank God if you are not one of these’, says M.P.
11/02/1966 Blackmail prospect: homosexual bill debate
11/02/1966 Plea by MP to change the law
11/02/1966 Plea for law change
11/02/1966 ‘Justice and compassion’ plea for homosexuals
11/02/1966 A Commons plea for compassion
11/02/1966 Letter: ‘queer’ charter, by Nature lover
11/02/1966 U.K. sex Bill approved
12/02/1966 57 majority for reform on homosexuality: hard-won victory against indignant critics
12/02/1966 11 ministers back the sex bill, by J T Haines
12/02/1966 Homosexuals Bill has good chance
12/02/1966 Commons says yes to law reform
12/02/1966 ‘Scrap this vice law’ vote by MPs, by William Wolff and Howard Preece
12/02/1966 Sex Bill gets 57 majority on free vote
12/02/1966 Ministers vote for Bill
12/02/1966 The Sun says: reform on the way
12/02/1966 MPs line up with educated public, by Norman Shrapnel
12/02/1966 A bad Bill!
12/02/1966 Ministers back the sex bill, says Arthur Butler
12/02/1966 164 –107 vote for reform on homosexual law: House of Commons
12/02/1966 Homosexuality
12/02/1966 Cheers as MPs vote for change in sex law, by Robin Page
12/02/1966 Homosexuals will increase Sir Cyril tells MPs
12/02/1966 Sex and the Lords: liberalising the laws on homosexuality and abortion
12/02/1966 ‘Justice and compassion plea for homosexuals
12/02/1966 Bill now likely to become law
12/02/1966 House of Commons votes to legalise homosexuality
12/02/1966 Commons now supports sex law reform
12/02/1966 ‘Unjustified attack’: Primate defended by Chelmsford M.P.
12/02/1966 Sex Bill is backed by Commons: 57 majority for second reading
12/02/1966 Bill’s prospects seen as ‘very good’: support declared by Home Secretary
12/02/1966 County MPs oppose Bill on homosexuals
12/02/1966 Young Liberals and law change
12/02/1966 (letter to Marje Proops: are our boyfriends gay?)
12/02/1966 Bill approved in the U.K.: homosexuality
12/02/1966 ‘End this crime of shame’ - Jenkins, by Robin Page
12/02/1966 164-107 vote for reform of homosexual law : House of Commons
12/02/1966 Sex bill gets 57 majority on free vote
12/02/1966 Homosexuality
12/02/1966 Reform on the way: The Sun says
12/02/1966 MPs back sex bill, by J T Haines
12/02/1966 The Sexual Offences Bill
12/02/1966 MPs line up with educated public, by Norman Shrapnel
12/02/1966 Homosexual bill gets 57 majority, by Alan Brown
12/02/1966 Sex bill approved on free vote: 164-107 law change
12/02/1966 MP attacks primate over views on sex
12/02/1966 57 votes carry the sex bill: Home Secretary tells Commons: ‘I personally back this measure’ Tory M.P. attacks Primate: ‘You can place little value on his judgement’, by Maurice Trowbridge
12/02/1966 Ending the blackmail: for a million men, compassion . . . as MPs heed Commons plea, by Eric Sewell
12/02/1966 Ministers back the sex bill, by Arthur Butler
12/02/1966 A bad bill!
12/02/1966 Majority of 57: homosexual acts bill gets second reading
12/02/1966 Majority of 57 for new law on homosexuals
13/02/1966 Letter: Baptist church and sexual offences bill, by H Allan Mawby
13/02/1966 Berkeley
13/02/1966 Neither crime nor sin: Peregrine Worsthorne sees the Commons vote on homosexuality as a defeat for conventional morality
13/02/1966 Answer, Dr. Ramsay
13/02/1966 Hard labour in the upper house, by John Crosby
13/02/1966 How vote split on sex reform
14/02/1966 Cordle slams bill on homosexuals
14/02/1966 Time to forget Wolfenden: homosexual law reform such as is now projected may have far deeper consequences than the reformers intend says Giles Playfair
14/02/1966 How they voted on homosexuality
14/02/1966 Homosexual bill gets 57 majority
14/02/1966 The £60 bill Mr Berkeley was only too happy to pay
14/02/1966 Homosexuality bill approved
14/02/1966 Bishop to give convicted parson another chance
14/02/1966 One Minister voted against sex bill
14/02/1966 Letter: ‘life today is not so full of evil’, by V Harris
14/02/1966 Letter: ‘life today is not so full of evil’, by Denise De Craon
14/02/1966 History lesson
14/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Rev I M Lowery
14/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Antony Grey
14/02/1966 (no title)
15/02/1966 ‘Include Forces in homosexual bill’
15/02/1966 Boy intruder stood over man’s bed: serious sexual assault claim
15/02/1966 Letter: was the Bishop too flippant?, by G F Mason
15/02/1966 Letter: was the Bishop too flippant?, by Rev Fred Meager
15/02/1966 (letter on ‘link’ between school corporal punishment and homosexuality)
15/02/1966 Letter: protecting the young, by D Crolla
15/02/1966 Votes on Sexual Offences Bill
15/02/1966 Letter: hear all sides, by T Matson
15/02/1966 Letter: plain and sane, by Margaret M Moss
15/02/1966 Letter: Roman parallel, by A Prudom
15/02/1966 Way of the World: statistical practices
15/02/1966 The secret about the secret agent all London wanted to know, by Michael Foot
16/02/1966 Letter: compassion needed, by D H Wall
16/02/1966 Letter: what are we becoming?, by Disgusted
16/02/1966 Letter: no compassion, by Student of Nature Lover
16/02/1966 Second reading for Lancaster MP’s bill
16/02/1966 What I told MP, by Dr Ramsey
16/02/1966 Convicted clergy: primate explains
16/02/1966 Homosexual offences
16/02/1966 Convicted clergy: Dr Ramsey replies
16/02/1966 The censor
16/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality and the law, by J P Eddy
16/02/1966 Letter: if Britain could vote on this bill . . ., by E Davies
16/02/1966 Letter: if Britain could vote on this bill . . ., by J H W
16/02/1966 Letter: if Britain could vote on this bill . . ., by Miss H G Payne
16/02/1966 Now the Lords lead
16/02/1966 Presbytery oppose homosexual bill
16/02/1966 Primate replies to M. P. on convicted clergy
16/02/1966 Convicted clergy: the Primate replies, by John Redfern
16/02/1966 Sex bill: Primate explains
16/02/1966 Clergy: Dr. Ramsay explains
16/02/1966 Letter: sex bill, by Rev Dr T H Cronchey
16/02/1966 Letter: compassion, by Sanchia Malden
17/02/1966 (column by Lord Arran)
17/02/1966 Sexual offences Bill amendments
17/02/1966 Letter by W H Brown
17/02/1966 M.P.s urged ‘oppose this Bill’
17/02/1966 Something the law can’t do, by Ross MacMaster
17/02/1966 M.P.s differ on Sexual Offences Bill
17/02/1966 Candidly yours, by Thomas Wright
17/02/1966 Sir Gerald against homosexual law reform
17/02/1966 Points from replies, by Sir Elwyn Jones (Attorney General)
17/02/1966 Baptists oppose bill, says M.P.
17/02/1966 House of Lords to rule on ‘kerb crawling’
17/02/1966 M.P.s want to keep sex law for teachers
17/02/1966 Written replies: homosexuals
17/02/1966 Wolfenden supporters
17/02/1966 Sexual Offences Bill amendments
17/02/1966 Mr. Frank Tomney condemns homosexual bill
18/02/1966 Letter: sex bill, by Colm Brogan
18/02/1966 Letter, by R J Webb, Chairman of Police Federation
18/02/1966 23 to 2
18/02/1966 Repeal this blackmailer’s charter, urges Strauss
18/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Michael Clark Hutchinson
18/02/1966 In two places at once!
18/02/1966 Dr. Kerr tells MP ‘claptrap’
18/02/1966 A welcome change in the law
18/02/1966 (quote from MP Sir Cyril Osborne in Commons debate)
18/02/1966 MP slams homosexual bill: first opposition speaker at second reading: ‘defeat for sound moral principles’
18/02/1966 Majority for Lancaster MP’s Bill to reform law on homosexuality
18/02/1966 Sex bill move by MP
18/02/1966 Civilisation marches on, by Matthew Coady
18/02/1966 City MP’s move on sex bill
18/02/1966 Exempt teachers and university staff, says M.P.s, by Gerard H Corr
18/02/1966 Sex bill may not succeed, by Gerard H Corr
18/02/1966 “No intention of resigning” – MP
18/02/1966 Exempt teachers from bill, plea
18/02/1966 Sir Spencer opposes Bill concerned with homosexuality
18/02/1966 Report from Westminster, by John L Hunt, M.P. for Bromley
18/02/1966 M.P. against sex Bill
18/02/1966 Three local MPs did not vote
18/02/1966 Glasgow bid for control over clubs
18/02/1966 My week in Parliament, by James Wellbeloved M.P. for Erith and Crayford
18/02/1966 Control these clubs, says bailie
18/02/1966 Price of ‘reform’
18/02/1966 County MPs oppose Bill on homosexuals
18/02/1966 Morality questions: a halt must be called: Lady Gammans, MP on the “ slide downhill”
18/02/1966 Letter: grave sin, by Concerned
18/02/1966 Morals and the law, by Norman St. John Stevas
18/02/1966 Convicted clergyman
18/02/1966 Homosexuality, by Sir Eric Bullus, M.P.
18/02/1966 Primate attacked in homosexual debate: House of Commons
18/02/1966 Unnatural vice
18/02/1966 I want to curb gambling – Jenkins
18/02/1966 Another defeat
18/02/1966 Minister’s pledge on homosexual sentences
18/02/1966 Letter: homosexual minors, by Meg Lynn
19/02/1966 Crime and sin
19/02/1966 Letter; homosexuality: reformer criticises Bournemouth MP, by Antony Grey
19/02/1966 Oppose this bill, Dorset asked
19/02/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by J Sinclair
19/02/1966 All will be well if those who govern are righteous
19/02/1966 Homosexual law reform
19/02/1966 Cheers for democracy
19/02/1966 Reform of homosexual law
19/02/1966 M.P. attacks homosexual bill: Mr Cordle says why he voted against it
19/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by A W Chapman
19/02/1966 Letter: outcasts by a twist of nature, by Pamela Dawson
19/02/1966 Letter: should resign, by E W Walker
19/02/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
20/02/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by Antony Grey
20/02/1966 Sex problem
20/02/1966 headline missing
21/02/1966 Society and reform of sex law
21/02/1966 Sin or crime?
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘tolerance stretched to the point of lunacy’: legalised homosexuality, by N Cameron
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘tolerance stretched to the point of lunacy’: legalised homosexuality, by Grateful Non-Christian
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘tolerance stretched to lunacy’: legalised homosexuality, by Mrs N E Hubbard
21/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Christine Jones
21/02/1966 Letter: a ‘disease’?, by Janet M Alder
21/02/1966 Letter: not the answer, by F J Evans
21/02/1966 Letter: by D E Powell
21/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Roger K England
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘no change plea’, by F W Gurney
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘enlightened understanding’, by Eric Vernon
21/02/1966 Letter: endangering the fabric, by A E G Wright
21/02/1966 Letter: ‘prejudiced thinking’, by F G Lyne
22/02/1966 Homosexuals and English Times, by Tom Collins
22/02/1966 Letter: sex bill, by Antony Grey
22/02/1966 Free Presbyterians attack sex bill
22/02/1966 Protests over sex bill: proposals of God-provoking nature’
22/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by P B D
22/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by D G T
23/02/1966 ‘The spread of drug taking’
23/02/1966 Teleview: ‘make ‘em laugh’ – but it might be a bad joke
23/02/1966 Free Kirk deplore new bill
23/02/1966 Letter, by D H McKnight
23/02/1966 Free Church in protest on sex bill
23/02/1966 Sexual Offences Bill: Free Church criticism
23/02/1966 Church warning on sex bill
23/02/1966 Sin approved by Parliament, by Trinity Square
24/02/1966 Road to ruin
24/02/1966 Let’s face it: the boring subject
24/02/1966 Letter; law and homosexuals, by Dr A K Thomas
24/02/1966 Letter; law and homosexuals, by G Dawson
24/02/1966 Penal reform bill in model parliament
24/02/1966 MPs get election fever: Westminster view
24/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by T R Hansford (Pastor)
24/02/1966 Letter: gross sin, by M J Withers
24/02/1966 Letter: anomaly, by Also Concerned
24/02/1966 Not a sin, by Heterosexual
24/02/1966 Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by David Sandison
24/02/1966 Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by Eileen Bent
24/02/1966 Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by C D Grainger
24/02/1966 Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by Catholic Mother
24/02/1966 Referred to the DPP: Attorney General. Written. 16 February
24/02/1966 Letter: setting ourselves above God, by Gerard H Blum
24/02/1966 Now we can begin to solve this problem, by Norman St. John-Stevas
24/02/1966 Student girls attack sex laws: tough talk on divorce, the pill and abortion, by Raeburn Mackie
24/02/1966 Nick Schofield writes - they don’t need help! (society’s patronising attitude to gays);
24/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by R L Archdale
24/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals and the law, by A E G Wright
24/02/1966 (The Church and Humphry Berkeley’s Sexual Offences Bill)
25/02/1966 Letter: “frankness about sex”, by M Lange
25/02/1966 Trouble at the grass roots: constituencies after Courtney, by Alan Watkins
25/02/1966 A Christian comment, by Bexley Council of Churches
25/02/1966 Students debate homosexuality
25/02/1966 Letter: Sexual Offences Bill, by Veritas
25/02/1966 Letter: ‘emotional stress’, by Dr D R M Brown
25/02/1966 (mention of Humphry Berkeley’s Sexual Offences Bill in piece by Felix Watkins)
25/02/1966 Letter: homosexuals can’t help themselves, by J L Pettman
25/02/1966 Homosexuals
25/02/1966 Gospel in parliament
25/02/1966 Moral problems:1
25/02/1966 Letter: civilisation marches on, by Allan Horsfall
25/02/1966 Homosexual offences
25/02/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by Mary K Grix
25/02/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by P W Wolfe
25/02/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by Patrick King
25/02/1966 Letter: non-party issue, by Planner
25/02/1966 Letter: slimy characters, by Nature Lover
25/02/1966 Commons votes to lift ban on homosexuals: after long campaign
26/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality: MP’s remarks ‘refreshing’
26/02/1966 Letter: ‘homosexuality is mental illness’, by “C. A.”
26/02/1966 A letter to the Editor
26/02/1966 Letter: the answer, by R Young
26/02/1966 Society and reform of sex law
26/02/1966 Letter: crime and sin, by Denis Geraghty
26/02/1966 (MP William Clark ‘s amendment to Humphry Berkeley’s Sexual Offences Bill)
28/02/1966 Letter: crime and sin, by Canon Howard Marlow
28/02/1966 Belfast Surgeon-M.P. speaks his mind on moral questions
28/02/1966 Churches ‘fail’ on social problems
28/02/1966 Free Church warn of ‘sin of sodom’: new bill deplored
28/02/1966 Free love: there’s no such thing, says Sheriff
28/02/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by A E Earl
28/02/1966 Letter; homosexuality, by Lucinda Hastings
28/02/1966 Letter: by E Holden
28/02/1966 Letter: unhappy, by Mother of two
28/02/1966 Letter: charity, by Blessed are the merciful
01/03/1966 review of The Morality of the Criminal Law
01/03/1966 Venus at large: sexuality and the limits of literature, by Jacques Barzan
01/03/1966 Wilson kills sex bill, by Gerard H Cobb
01/03/1966 Letter: the hell of being a homosexual ,by Pam
01/03/1966 Letter: sex bill, by Lucille Iremonger
01/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Janet Alder
01/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by 50 Years a Tory
02/03/1966 Letter: what to read, by Mother of Three
02/03/1966 Letter: condemned, by James van de Linde
02/03/1966 Letter: it is a sin
02/03/1966 Letter: an act to help those in a twilight world, by a homosexual
02/03/1966 Letter: a Doctor replies to Mr. McClure
02/03/1966 Changing the law on abortion: social legislation, by Lord Balerno
03/03/1966 Nation is having a moral breakdown, says Free Churchmen: Prime Minister is asked to act
03/03/1966 In pursuit of change – but change to what?: speaking my mind, by Martin Wallace
03/03/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by Anne Evans
03/03/1966 Letter: majority against the bill, by G Goodyear
03/03/1966 Letter: confused, by W Corbishley
03/03/1966 Vision of gaol where wives may live
03/03/1966 ‘Blackmailers extorted millions of dollars’
03/03/1966 Homosexuals pay up to nation-wide blackmail ring
03/03/1966 Blackmail ring exposed
03/03/1966 Blackmailers extorted millions
03/03/1966 USA blackmail ring extorted millions
03/03/1966 Sex blackmail ring exposed: victims paid out millions of dollars
03/03/1966 U.S. blackmail ring has extorted millions – report
03/03/1966 Free Church morals plea to Premier
04/03/1966 Case against changing the law
04/03/1966 Letter: irrelevant
04/03/1966 Third round debate
04/03/1966 Homosexuality – parents are the real cause, by Dr R W Sheilds
04/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Anonymous
04/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Harold T Barlow
04/03/1966 Letter: ‘legislation will need to more sin’, by Florence L Baker
04/03/1966 17 held in Hollywood stars blackmail case, by Henry Thody
04/03/1966 Millions (?) U.S. ring nets: Pentagon officer blackmailed by gang for homosexuality
04/03/1966 1,000 U.S. victims of blackmail
04/03/1966 Huge blackmail ring
04/03/1966 Homosexuals ‘paid millions in blackmail’
04/03/1966 U.S. blackmailers uncovered
04/03/1966 Letter: crime and sin, by Miss Dinah Hall
04/03/1966 Letter: morality, by Cynric Mytton-Davies
04/03/1966 Blackmail ring extorted millions of dollars
04/03/1966 “Extortion ring”
04/03/1966 Extortion gang made millions
04/03/1966 Million dollar blackmail ring smashed, by Antony Currah
04/03/1966 Views on the vexed question of hanging and homosexuality: teen and twenty parade, by Phillip Apps
05/03/1966 Mr Money’s breadwinner: his wife went out to work while he did the housework
05/03/1966 Letter: crime and sin, by Antony Grey
05/03/1966 University debate in Glasgow: sex and morals
05/03/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by J Sinclair
05/03/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by John Hart
05/03/1966 Marriage was ‘heaven-sent solution to his problems’ – says judge, granting wife a decree
05/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by “51 years a Tory”
05/03/1966 Letter: stony hearts, by a compassionate Christian
06/03/1966 Letter: disgusting, by Arthur McAloon
07/03/1966 Letter: mutation, by lefthanded
07/03/1966 Letter: sex bill, by C G Learoyd
07/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Ballyclare Reader
08/03/1966 Candy hugs, kisses the jurors: innocent, they insisted
08/03/1966 Homosexual law bill backed in Church newspaper
08/03/1966 Letter: maladjustment, by H Pennington
09/03/1966 Conservative opposition to MP’s bill
09/03/1966 Letter: absentees, by E N Mauchlin
09/03/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Reformist
10/03/1966 Letter: independent, by Edith M Atkinson
10/03/1966 Letter: in favour of reform, by Allan Horsfall
10/03/1966 Letter: law and homosexuals, by R F Broadfoot
10/03/1966 Letter: law and homosexuals, by F J Birkett
10/03/1966 Letter: law and homosexuals, by John Pitwell
11/03/1966 Letter: invasion of privacy, by D B Roberts
11/03/1966 We’ve asked for it: if Britain should be destroyed like the Cities of the Plain . . ., by S E Pulford
11/03/1966 ‘You’ and the Sex Bill
11/03/1966 Let them feel shame: Spa vicar comments on homosexuality bill: ‘hiding’
11/03/1966 Anglian Prelate hits abortion bill
11/03/1966 (editorial comment on homosexuality and its causes)
12/03/1966 Danger of the ‘New Christianity’
12/03/1966 An ‘example’ for sex law reformers’
12/03/1966 Judge on seduction by homosexuals
12/03/1966 Letter: origins of homosexuality, by J A Hadfield
12/03/1966 ‘The law is out of date’: homosexuality
12/03/1966 Letter: homosexuals, by onlooker
12/03/1966 Appeal for greater tolerance of homosexuals
13/03/1966 Sir Alec admires, by Ian Sproat
14/03/1966 Law and morality
14/03/1966 (no title)
14/03/1966 ‘It’s not morally wrong
15/03/1966 Letter: pandering to weakness, by teenager’s mum
15/03/1966 Letter: sayings of the time
15/03/1966 Rector defends reform on homosexual law
16/03/1966 Sex freedom club ‘backed by varsity’
16/03/1966 Letter: law and morality, by T H Cronchey
16/03/1966 Letter: Sexual Offences Bill, by E R Shackleton
16/03/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by H G Bradford
16/03/1966 Letter: voting in the Sexual Offences Bill, by E R Shackleton
17/03/1966 Letter: totalitarian, by Oslena Stott
17/03/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by David Burch, Alan Breeze, George Byrne, Alan Martin, M Silverman, Vera Godden
18/03/1966 Sex bill an issue in British voting: Tory denies it but queried about reform on deviates
18/03/1966 (details of case of threat to accuse of sodomy)
18/03/1966 Letter: platform talk, by W B Wilson
18/03/1966 Letter: M.P.’s concern, by C A Beard
18/03/1966 Letter: ‘cults of obscenity and violence’, by T A Ende
18/03/1966 Letter: hold back from hasty judgement
18/03/1966 Letter; homosexuality, by Robert C Durrant
19/03/1966 Letter: sex bill, by Erica Jones
19/03/1966 Letter: sex bill, by C G Learoyd
21/03/1966 Contact, by Rev Arthur Connnop
22/03/1966 Letter: history must not repeat itself, by T T Mullane
22/03/1966 Macleod attacks abstain threat
22/03/1966 Letter: article on homosexuality irrational, by D K Le Fleming
24/03/1966 ‘Liberal’ Tory expects to lose votes: controversy over sex bill, by Roland Gribben
25/03/1966 TV censorship “impossible”
25/03/1966 Apartheid for women, by Brigid Brophy
26/03/1966 Letter: crime and sin, by Antony Grey
26/03/1966 Notes of the week: immoral purposes
27/03/1966 Panic in dirty books, by Paul L Montgomery
27/03/1966 Will sex and hanging sway the voters?, by Colin McGlashan
28/03/1966 The snooper . . .or what happened to a man who dared to criticise, by Henry Thody
28/03/1966 Letter: strong feeling on this subject, by D H
29/03/1966 Preacher invites down-and-outs to pop session
01/04/1966 Morals and opinions, by Mari Kuttna
01/04/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by F W Issac
01/04/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Rt Rev P T Paget King
01/04/1966 Letter: homosexuality, by Reg Henderson
01/04/1966 Letter: ‘cults of obscenity and violence’, by regular reader
01/04/1966 Quote or not to quote?
02/04/1966 476 call for help
04/04/1966 Italian star in ‘A View from the Bridge’
04/04/1966 Banned play is on the ‘box’
05/04/1966 29 blondes get marching orders form ‘sex’ case, by Frank Goldsworthy
05/04/1966 Judge stops sex case to remove schoolgirls
05/04/1966 Bill lapses
05/04/1966 BBC, by Deirdre Chapman
07/04/1966 Comment: sympathy
09/04/1966 Letter: “womanisers” the greater menace?, by housewife
15/04/1966 Letter: problem of heredity?, by AWH
15/04/1966 Letter: ‘sadism common to all types’, by AWH
15/04/1966 “Clean up broadcasting . . .”
15/04/1966 Letter: tragic partnership
16/04/1966 Indecency charge: two for trial
17/04/1966 War sought for homosexuals: groups to aid deviates ask end to Pentagon ban
19/04/1966 Blame for defeat, says former MP
19/04/1966 Unseated Tory tells party to blame him
20/04/1966 Letter: this should be Labour’s course, by Kendrick Jones
20/04/1966 Letter: greater evil, by Pat Roberts
21/04/1966 The Earl of Arran: repeat performance
21/04/1966 Origins of homosexuality
22/04/1966 Letter: legalising sin, by Beatrice Sherif
22/04/1966 Work of the Albany Trust
26/04/1966 Backbenchers protest at curb on members’ bills
27/04/1966 Silkin and Arran start again
27/04/1966 Backbenchers’ time
27/04/1966 30 Labour MPs stage angry sit-down: revolt in the Commons
27/04/1966 Sex Bills battle is on again
28/04/1966 Pushed out
28/04/1966 Knocking the church
28/04/1966 Bernard Levin: what there to laugh about
29/04/1966 Lena Jeger, MP: a question of time
29/04/1966 Physiology: problems of sex
29/04/1966 Male and female created he them
29/04/1966 Homosexuality: need for wider research, by M S Bird
01/05/1966 Bishop tells of Moors case and blackmail, by Eric Sewell
01/05/1966 While there’s hope: Samaritans operate a round-the-clock service advising and helping people
01/05/1966 Homosexuality and public schools
01/05/1966 Iain MaCleod
01/05/1966 Letter: homosexual reform, by Antony Grey
03/05/1966 Newspapers in the dock: a case for 'muck-raking', by John Beavan
07/05/1966 Clare Shepherd: May I help you
07/05/1966 U.S. University head is accused
09/05/1966 Lord Silkin to reintroduce bill on abortion
11/05/1966 Abortion bill unchallenged: homosexuality Bill given 41 majority
11/05/1966 Firm ban Bishop’s ‘unsuitable’ article, by Robin Robinson
11/05/1966 Sex offences Bill gets 41 majority
11/05/1966 Homosexual Bill gets 41 majority: abortion measure unopposed
11/05/1966 41 majority for Sexual Offences Bill
11/05/1966 Abortion measure unopposed
11/05/1966 Blackmail and the homosexual
11/05/1966 ‘Homosexual’ Bill goes on
11/05/1966 70-29 vote for sex Bill
11/05/1966 Homosexual Bill supported: second reading
11/05/1966 41 majority for Sex offences Bill
11/05/1966 Face facts
11/05/1966 Let us not have human stud farms, says Lord Arran
11/05/1966 Back sex offences bill: majority of 41 lords
11/05/1966 Lords pass abortion, sex bills
11/05/1966 Danger in not facing the facts of life, says Lady Gaitskell, by Maurice Trowbridge
11/05/1966 Peers talk of sex and morality
11/05/1966 Abortion and sex offences Bills read second time
11/05/1966 Peers back sex bill by 41 votes, by Howard Preece
11/05/1966 Controversial bills passed
11/05/1966 Lord approve homosexuality, abortion bills
11/05/1966 Lords would legalize homosexual acts
11/05/1966 Homosexual Bill: Lords approve
12/05/1966 Peers back laws to help homosexuals
12/05/1966 Teenage drug ban annoys psychiatrist
12/05/1966 Effort to ease abortion law
12/05/1966 Lords in favour of legal abortions
12/05/1966 Lords approve bills to liberalise sex laws
13/05/1966 Bishop on problems of homosexuals
13/05/1966 Easier way to help adolescents: trained consultants have more success than family
13/05/1966 Murder in the House, by Desmond MacNamara
15/05/1966 Liberals in sex bill talks
15/05/1966 Standards
15/05/1966 Aticus: Football fellow
16/05/1966 Homosexual bill hinted: Scots M.P.s ‘thinking’
16/05/1966 (untitled article: as story in Scotsman dated 16.5.66)
17/05/1966 Letter: Homosexual bill, by C C J Nauier
17/05/1966 Don’t pass this sex bill, says Free Kirk
17/05/1966 Letter: this bill is wrong, by John Hutton
17/05/1966 Bill to help Borders is M.P.’s choice
18/05/1966 ‘Lucky’ MP is looking for a cause, by Marna Price
19/05/1966 (no title)
19/05/1966 M.P. drops borders bill idea
19/05/1966 Scots MP tries to ban feus
19/05/1966 Let’s find a worthy cause for Mr Steel to pursue
20/05/1966 Spotlight on politics: the oldest rule book, by Matthew Coady
20/05/1966 Letter: heads of clay, by Kay Barnes
20/05/1966 The Bishop’s compassion
20/05/1966 Letter: a threat to every youth, by worried mother of three
21/05/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
21/05/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
21/05/1966 TV Review: Channel 13 presents a homosexual study, by Jack Gould
21/05/1966 Letter: Bishops back this baneful measure, by A E Lloyd
21/05/1966 Boxed in
21/05/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by “Patrys”
21/05/1966 Second thoughts on the Arran Bill, by Rev. Dr. W J Bolt LL.M
22/05/1966 Letter: sexual offences, by J P Eddy
22/05/1966 Why girls become lesbian, by Joyce Eggington
22/05/1966 Aboard a typical little merchant ship . . .
23/05/1966 Life and leisure
23/05/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform, by Anthony J C Kerr
24/05/1966 Lower limit for sex Bill defeated
24/05/1966 Sex age limit move fails
24/05/1966 ‘Blackmail dangers’ in sex Bill
24/05/1966 Sex Bill: bid to lower age limit fails: Peer points to danger of blackmail
24/05/1966 Lords extent grounds for abortion
24/05/1966 Peers reject age limit on sex bill
24/05/1966 Lord Arran’s Bill moves on
24/05/1966 Homosexual law reform: The Lords
24/05/1966 Sex Bill: move to reduce age limit fails
24/05/1966 Changes in sex offences Bill age limit rejected
24/05/1966 Arran’s Bill progresses
24/05/1966 Sexual Offences Bill: lower age limit move fails
24/05/1966 Cut vice Bill age, says peer
24/05/1966 Sex bill: bid to put age limit, by Howard Preece
24/05/1966 Homosexual law reform
25/05/1966 Letter: priorities, by Alan M Robertson
25/05/1966 Homosexuality in men and women
26/05/1966 Ministers to help Abortion Bill M.P.s
27/05/1966 Letter: Britain’s homosexual bill applauded, by “A South African one”
27/05/1966 Letter: Britain’s homosexual bill applauded, by A M Towert
27/05/1966 Letter: a new role for The Church, by M N France, Anglican Chaplain to the University of Essex
27/05/1966 House of Lords now at full throttle: a weekly commentary by Cincinnatus
27/05/1966 London dairy: Paul Johnson
28/05/1966 The Reason why
28/05/1966 (no title)
30/05/1966 Letter: vandalism, by J Swift
02/06/1966 The World at odds, by Werner Pelez
02/06/1966 Letter: mistaken, by old voluntary worker
03/06/1966 Centrepiece: look back and sides, by Mervyn Jones
03/06/1966 Letter: Liberalism, by Dorothy Usher
03/06/1966 Parliamentary profit
04/06/1966 Letter: the Quaker view, by Geoffrey Weeden
04/06/1966 Homosexuals, drinkers need help of churches: Conference decides
05/06/1966 (review of ‘Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality: A comparative study of three types of homosexuals’, by Michael Schofield)
05/06/1966 Abse’s Sexual Offences Bill
05/06/1966 Sex Bill
05/06/1966 MPs back sex reform Bill 244 – 100
05/06/1966 Sex Bill for Commons again
07/06/1966 Bishop on sex law reform
08/06/1966 Acts the Church still condemns
08/06/1966 Homosexuality is not condoned: Bishop on Church’s attitude
09/06/1966 Juries acquit two out of five: new light on sentences
10/06/1966 Bishop of Exeter puts case for sex law reform: but Church still condemns homosexual activities, Diocesan conference told
10/06/1966 “Too little guidance on everyday problems: U.F. Church assembly
10/06/1966 Letter, by F H Jenkins
10/06/1966 Letter, by Not All Queer
10/06/1966 Letter, by Sappho
10/06/1966 Letter, by shocked
13/06/1966 The watch on the mails
15/06/1966 Abortion . . .by the wife of the man behind the Bill, by Mamie Crichton
16/06/1966 Earl of Arran: torpedoed
16/06/1966 New sex Bill move by MP, by Maurice Romilly
17/06/1966 Lords pass sex Bill
17/06/1966 Lords pass sex Bill
17/06/1966 Lords give sex Bill 18 majority
17/06/1966 Homosexual Bill “ has no future”: Arran appeals to government
17/06/1966 Peterborough: basic study
17/06/1966 Sex law change will free prisoners
17/06/1966 Protests at lost work on homosexual Bill: House of Lords
17/06/1966 Blow for vice bill: slim majority in Lords – and no to Government legislation, by Maurice Trowbridge
17/06/1966 Homosexual Bill given 18 majority: The Lords
17/06/1966 Peers in favour of TV ‘House of Lords show’ : Westminster scene
17/06/1966 Fresh bid to change sex law
17/06/1966 Arran’s Bill wins Lords support again
17/06/1966 Earl of Arran’s Bill gets peers’ approval: . . .but only by 18 votes
17/06/1966 Homosexual bill given 18 majority: House of Lords
17/06/1966 Round of attacks on Arran’s sex Bill: 3rd. reading majority cut
17/06/1966 Lords vote 78-60 on sex bill
17/06/1966 Blow for vice Bill: slim a majority in Lords – ‘no’ to government legislation, by Maurice Trowbridge
17/06/1966 Arran’s Bill wins Lords support again
17/06/1966 (no title)
17/06/1966 Sex law change will free prisoners
17/06/1966 Fresh bid to change sex law
17/06/1966 Arran’s Bill passed
17/06/1966 Arran’s sex Bill passes Lords
17/06/1966 A case for time
17/06/1966 Smallest majority for Lord Arran’s Bill
17/06/1966 Sex Bill gets smallest vote
17/06/1966 Sex reform Bill majority cut to 18
17/06/1966 Lord Arran pleads for his Bill
17/06/1966 Small majority on sex offences Bill
17/06/1966 Lords pass sex bill: smallest majority: Primate backs appeal for time in Commons
18/06/1966 Blackmailers prey on America’s sex outlaws, by Tony Delano
18/06/1966 Roy Jenkins talks about that “ extraordinary rag-bag” the Home Office
18/06/1966 Sodomy bill held up
18/06/1966 Snag may kill morals law reform bill
18/06/1966 Nobody willing to sponsor bill
19/06/1966 The route to reform
21/06/1966 Now less-popular up for airing
21/06/1966 MPs debate ‘less popular’ issues
21/06/1966 Now less-popular up for airing
23/06/1966 The Earl of Arran: where was Oscar was arrested
24/06/1966 Mandate for change
24/06/1966 Peer opposes homosexual Bill
25/06/1966 Homosexual law reform Bill reaches an impasse
25/06/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
27/06/1966 Homosexual law change now likely, by Walter Terry
27/06/1966 Overdue reform
27/06/1966 What Mrs. Whitehouse wants from TV
27/06/1966 Ministers give way on sex Bill, by Walter Terry
28/06/1966 (column by Iain MacLeod)
29/06/1966 Letter: Which way England?, by T Harrison
30/06/1966 Ex-ministers support sex offences bill
30/06/1966 The Earl of Arran: I can do no more
30/06/1966 Doubts over support for sex Bill
30/06/1966 Letter, by B G V Crozier-Cole
30/06/1966 Letter, by M G Payne
30/06/1966 Homosexual Bill gets support
30/06/1966 Homosexual reform Bill goes ahead, by David G Rosser
01/07/1966 Gay ladies: what is a lesbian?
01/07/1966 Letter: Homosexual law reform, by A H W
01/07/1966 Letter, by R M Livingstone, JP
02/07/1966 Harry Whewell: homosexuals anonymous
02/07/1966 Labour MP backs sex bill move
03/07/1966 Camp is swinging – but was does it mean?
03/07/1966 (column by John Gordon)
04/07/1966 Why the MP backs abortion
05/07/1966 (extract on the Sexual Offences Bill)
05/07/1966 Comment: not so dusty
05/07/1966 (column by Iain MacLeod)
05/07/1966 Lordly self-criticism
06/07/1966 Doctors affirm obligation of secrecy
06/07/1966 144 majority gives start to sex bill
06/07/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
06/07/1966 Commons accepts bill to lift homosexual penalties
06/07/1966 Nasty case smells of blackmail – Judge
06/07/1966 MPs vote to hear sex bill
06/07/1966 How they voted
06/07/1966 How they voted
06/07/1966 Vice Bill voted in by M.P.s, by George Lochead
06/07/1966 Boofy in the rain
06/07/1966 Abse wins sex bill approval, by Andrew Alexander
06/07/1966 Commons free vote
06/07/1966 Commons clears the way for homosexuality bill: triumph for Mr. Abse
06/07/1966 Commons says yes to new homosexual law, by Walter Terry
06/07/1966 Sir Cyril splutters with passion over ‘this dirty Bill’ . . . and they laugh and they laugh
06/07/1966 Big vote to end vice law, by William Wolf
06/07/1966 Sex law change is in the way
06/07/1966 Homosexuality: ‘this dirty Bill’
06/07/1966 A shocked Sir Cyril ‘celebrates’, by Norman Shrapnel
06/07/1966 Vice Bill voted in by M.P.s, by George Lochhead
06/07/1966 Homosexual bill given 144 majority
06/07/1966 MPs vote to hear sex bill
06/07/1966 M.P.s support Bill on homosexuals
06/07/1966 144 majority to debate homosexual Bill
06/07/1966 Sex Bill to be heard, by Dudley Stephens
06/07/1966 Wanted: understanding
06/07/1966 For and against sex Bill
06/07/1966 Commons debate for sex Bill
06/07/1966 Homosexual Bill to be debated: Commons decision
06/07/1966 Homosexual Bill for Commons again
06/07/1966 Helping law reform
06/07/1966 Mr. Fraser among bill’s sponsors
06/07/1966 New M.P. helps introduction of Sexual Offences Bill
06/07/1966 Sex Bill gets 144 majority
06/07/1966 Big majority for introduction of homosexual Bill
06/07/1966 M.P.s vote to debate sex Bill: ‘dirty’ measure protest
06/07/1966 Mr. Abse’s Bill can be introduced
06/07/1966 A dirty Bill, says Sir Cyril
06/07/1966 Homosexual Bill advances
06/07/1966 Commons ends ban on deviates
06/07/1966 Homosexual Bill in commons
06/07/1966 Mr. Abse’s Bill can be introduced
06/07/1966 A dirty Bill, says Sir Cyril
06/07/1966 Commons debate for sex Bill
06/07/1966 Homosexual Bill to be debated: Commons decision
07/07/1966 Homosexuality bill introduced
07/07/1966 Letter: homosexual reform ,by Antony Grey
07/07/1966 Sex Bill will change little, says police union
07/07/1966 Controversial bill boosted
07/07/1966 Peterborough: whose time for the Bill?
07/07/1966 Homosexual law reform: write to M.P. plea
07/07/1966 Support for sex Bill
07/07/1966 (no title)
07/07/1966 Ross opposed to Abse’s Bill
07/07/1966 18 Scots support homosexual Bill: 35 vote on measure
07/07/1966 Permission for Bill
07/07/1966 U.K. Bill to be debated
07/07/1966 M.P.s strongly back sex bill
07/07/1966 Bill gets big vote
08/07/1966 Letter: homosexual vote not decisive: abstention by members, by Cyril Osborne
08/07/1966 ‘No’ to sex Bill
08/07/1966 Letter: repugnant, by Citizen
08/07/1966 Look back in fear: the philosophy of Britain’s other Osborne, by Peter Black
08/07/1966 MPs favour homosexual law change
08/07/1966 Homosexual law reform
08/07/1966 Mr. Berkeley accuses MP of ‘disguising his views’ on law reform: statement on sex offences bill brings attack
08/07/1966 I went in wring lobby
08/07/1966 Letter: homosexual law reform ,by “Regular Reader”
08/07/1966 Letter: Mr Ende is unmoved, by T A Ende
09/07/1966 Homosexual Bill delayed
09/07/1966 Homosexual Bill meets objections
09/07/1966 Objection to sex Bill
09/07/1966 Letter: degrading, by W B Wilson
09/07/1966 Objections to sex Bill
09/07/1966 Objection to sex Bill
09/07/1966 Objection to Mr Abse’s Bill
09/07/1966 Letter: transsexuality, by Georgina Turtle
10/07/1966 No mandate
10/07/1966 Letter: homosexual dilemma, by Jill Racy
12/07/1966 Letter: a terrible curse, by a homosexual
13/07/1966 Letter: confused young people, by Pro sky pilot
14/07/1966 Homosexual Bill ‘harmless’
15/07/1966 Bessell’s vote about homosexuals
15/07/1966 Letter: intolerant views, by Housewife
15/07/1966 Letter: legalised evil, by R Gapper
15/07/1966 Letter: depraved minds, by ant-socialist
15/07/1966 Letter: not repulsive, by A C Apling
15/07/1966 Letter: many form life partnerships, by mother
15/07/1966 Letter: not wanted, by another citizen
15/07/1966 Letter: sinfulness of ‘living in sin’, by older reader
15/07/1966 Letter: abundant warnings for parents, by “regular reader”
15/07/1966 Homosexual reform: through a glass darkly, by Richard Allen
15/07/1966 A reform to find time for
15/07/1966 Labour official says criticism of MP unfounded
15/07/1966 Homosexual ruled as a psychopath: US court upholds deportation order, by David Ehrlich
15/07/1966 Backed by bishops
15/07/1966 Letter: Ireland today, by Joseph Cole
15/07/1966 Letter: proper name?, by M Hutchinson
15/07/1966 Letter: mental torture, by a student
15/07/1966 Homosexuality
16/07/1966 Ill-advised bill
16/07/1966 Letter: thanks to M.P., by J Sinclair
17/07/1966 Letter: Ireland today, by Joseph Cole
17/07/1966 Why Mason despises Batman
21/07/1966 Letter: Sexual Offences Bill defended, by M C
21/07/1966 Letter: these men are not monsters, by Mrs Y Bailey
21/07/1966 Letter: Bill which does nothing to help, by R & P Duce
22/07/1966 Need to face new moral decisions
22/07/1966 Letter: homosexuals – that vote, by T S Roseveare
23/07/1966 194 majority in abortion Bill vote: Home Secretary’s reform plea
27/07/1966 TV bedroom quiz starts a storm
28/07/1966 The test
29/07/1966 Letter: birthright of a child, by A H W
30/07/1966 Books banned
01/08/1966 Letter: Christ and his disciples, by P B
01/08/1966 Letter: moral decay, by A H Combe Martin
02/08/1966 Abortion and divorce discussed by Liberals
02/08/1966 A Yemen ‘first’: execution of a homosexual
02/08/1966 Letter: not criminals, by normal teenager
03/08/1966 A cheap death
03/08/1966 Selling pint of the after-shave sting
04/08/1966 More sting – more sales for Britain’s manly males
04/08/1966 Lotion stings men into opening their minds
04/08/1966 A man by any other name . . . ‘only sissies go for though-guy scents’
04/08/1966 Letter: against the majority, by local reader
05/08/1966 Letter: Labour and law reform, by David Craig
05/08/1966 Letter: blurring the issue, by Humphry Berkeley
05/08/1966 Letter: Dr Bell and that Bill, by Keith Bell
05/08/1966 M.P.s’ move to get book banned
05/08/1966 For real he-men rose mist may by any other name would smell as sweet
06/08/1966 Will Church accept these men?
06/08/1966 (advice sought by man who thinks he’s gay)
08/08/1966 Letter: fresh breeze, by Miss A Varea
08/08/1966 ‘Disintegration of morals’ – Bishop
08/08/1966 Bishop urges forum on moral code
08/08/1966 ‘Forum on behaviour standards needed’
08/08/1966 Bishop wants forum on moral standards
08/08/1966 Public standards forum urged
09/08/1966 Letter: homosexual acts, by Barbara S Shaw
09/08/1966 Wilts village for misfits is proposed
10/08/1966 Village for misfits to cost £250,000
10/08/1966 BBC shock sex probe rapped
10/08/1966 Letter: Sex Bill, by A J Moxon
11/08/1966 Letter: other side of the fence, by D J Shields
11/08/1966 In-bed secrets stun viewers
11/08/1966 Naked TV shocks Britain
12/08/1966 B.B.C. defends showing of documentary on sex
12/08/1966 ‘Dad’ gives approval to in-bed film
12/08/1966 BBC in trouble
12/08/1966 Letter: a plea for compassion, by school-teacher
12/08/1966 Yemen: the death of Ahmed el Osmay
12/08/1966 Man passed noted in toilet, court told
13/08/1966 Attitudes to homosexuals
14/08/1966 Time to forget Wolfenden, by Giles Playfair
16/08/1966 Doctor in the house, by Iatros
17/08/1966 Miscellany, at large
19/08/1966 Pastor leads fight against sex bill
23/08/1966 Birmingham support for reform society
23/08/1966 Law reformers in the West Midlands
23/08/1966 Counselling service
24/08/1966 Symposium on homosexuality
26/08/1966 Police kept watch
27/08/1966 Letter: Ned Kelly “myth”, by R S Evans
01/09/1966 Letter: Les girls (1), unidentified
01/09/1966 Letter: Les girls (2), by Mr P J Stanton
01/09/1966 Letter: Les girls (3), unidentified
01/09/1966 The Church and the homosexual: (2) can the Church help?, by Neil C. Fisher
09/09/1966 (no title; sentence on man in case reported on 12.8.66)
12/09/1966 Letter: candidates’ views on selection: different attitudes, by Eric Koops
12/09/1966 Divorce again plan for Colombia
14/09/1966 Court case over novel confirmed
14/09/1966 Nobody changes, by Mollie Lloyd
18/09/1966 Britain is hardboiled about crime, by Anthony Lewis
20/09/1966 Law reform backlog could be shifted by peers: Lord Devlin’s proposal to remove their rust
21/09/1966 ‘This persecution of a million men must be stopped’
22/09/1966 For kicks
23/09/1966 Letter: homosexuals - a plea for tolerance, by “amused female”
23/09/1966 Court hears of ‘queer rolling’
23/09/1966 No room for compromise; public schools, by Logie Bruce Lockhart
28/09/1966 Cardiff court told of ‘bashing’ sport
29/09/1966 Four-year sentence halved
29/09/1966 ‘Bizarre story’ of a homosexual led into crime
30/09/1966 Further remands at Lymington
01/10/1966 Liberals want new system
01/10/1966 Homosexuals beyond law reform, by Antony Grey
03/10/1966 Letter: take a trip, Madam . . ., by Mr Smith
04/10/1966 Homosexuals’ plea to UN
06/10/1966 Letter: homosexuals, by Lydia J Crook
06/10/1966 Lavatory offences at Worthing
06/10/1966 Sex education in youth clubs, by Claire Rayner
08/10/1966 No strip girls so jail riots
09/10/1966 Homosexuals ask for ‘consideration’
12/10/1966 (untitled article mentions Church support for gay reform)
12/10/1966 Film censorship in Ireland: appeals chairman’s views
12/10/1966 Detention for two teenage ‘rollers’
14/10/1966 ‘Bill is a death warrant on the innocent’: Archbishop attacks abortion measure
15/10/1966 Letter: homosexuality and the law, by Allan Horsfall
17/10/1966 Why they protest
18/10/1966 Vice squad chief starts Swiss row over brothels
20/10/1966 Action soon on sex law reform?, by Philip Marshall
20/10/1966 Sex and sanity
20/10/1966 ‘Camp’
21/10/1966 Sounding out
21/10/1966 (classified ad from HLRS asking for donations)
26/10/1966 A fairy tale (for adults only)
27/10/1966 Letter: sex report, by Richard S Lawrence
28/10/1966 U.S. novel ‘a collection of dirty stories’: obscenity prosecution by M.P.
30/10/1966 Go-ahead for change in sex law
30/10/1966 Giving honours where honour is due
30/10/1966 Go-ahead for change in the sex law
01/11/1966 Sex bill likely to pass
01/11/1966 Christians might refuse to be Doctors: changing the law on abortion
02/11/1966 (‘Westgate’ column)
03/11/1966 Comfortable message in a witty study
03/11/1966 Homosexual bill to be speeded up, by Gordon Jackson
03/11/1966 New sex law speeded up, by Philip Marshall
03/11/1966 Homosexual legislation – new move
03/11/1966 Homosexual law soon?
04/11/1966 Sexual Offences Bill could be law by spring
04/11/1966 Homosexual Bill certain to be passed
04/11/1966 Bill on males seems certain
04/11/1966 New sex bill may soon be law
04/11/1966 Law next year
04/11/1966 Sex law move
04/11/1966 Go-ahead for Abse
04/11/1966 Go-ahead for the sex bill, by Victor Knight
04/11/1966 To become law
04/11/1966 Sex bill may be through by spring
04/11/1966 Private Bill likely to succeed
04/11/1966 Law or disorder
05/11/1966 Legalised conduct
05/11/1966 Way clear for U.K. Sex Bill
05/11/1966 No hiding place: whatever they decide, MPs will always be under fire, by John Egan
06/11/1966 In my experience: the woman who escaped from a Lesbian stranglehold; to her it seemed love
10/11/1966 (column by Earl of Arran)
10/11/1966 Attractive delusions
11/11/1966 Opinion: age of consent
11/11/1966 M.P.s to debate vice Bill soon
12/11/1966 A matter of conscience; homosexuality abortion hanging divorce: Westminster notebook by John Egan
12/11/1966 Homosexual law reform by May
12/11/1966 Obscenity law maybe meaningless – M.P.
13/11/1966 M.P. calls sex novel ‘filthy’
13/11/1966 This ‘brutal, filthy’ book
13/11/1966 Publisher M.P. says: ‘I’m horrified at this brutal and filthy book’: magistrate asked to ban the Brooklyn novel on drug-taking
13/11/1966 As we see it: strange outlook
14/11/1966 My compassion was aroused, woman publisher says: defence deny novel is obscene
14/11/1966 M.P. says book is ‘brutal, filthy muck’
15/11/1966 Accused Minister collapses in court
15/11/1966 Six men, youth face indecency charges in city
16/11/1966 Seven for trial: city charges for indecency
18/11/1966 Letter: homosexual bill, by Pat Meghee
18/11/1966 The new morality: pornography, by David Holbrook
18/11/1966 Letter: wrong values?, by Geoffrey P T Paget King
18/11/1966 Men, women and others
21/11/1966 U.S. hospital launches sex change surgery: males become females
23/11/1966 Letter: ignorance and law reform, by Phyllis Roberts
23/11/1966 Frank BBC sex change programme wins plaudits
25/11/1966 Stormy evening
25/11/1966 Letter: “an invasion of privacy” (name not published)
25/11/1966 Letter: homosexuality: back into the sewers, by K J Abbey
26/11/1966 ‘Immoral’ books seized
26/11/1966 Difficulties of reform
27/11/1966 Medicine: surgery to change gender, by Stuart H Loory (sex change procedures)
27/11/1966 Red duster lobby blow to Abse’s bill, by James Margach
28/11/1966 Mr Abse replies to seaport critics
28/11/1966 Protect merchant seamen, say M.P.s
28/11/1966 Change sought in homosexual Bill by M.P.s
29/11/1966 Divorce can be best answer – minister
30/11/1966 Doubts over support for sex bill
01/12/1966 Letter: homosexuals, by defiant homosexual
01/12/1966 Now Tilney supports Labour M.P.s: Abse’s Bill
01/12/1966 Okay fellas, now sit down and take a grip of your pride. A psychiatrist says: men are becoming indifferent to sex, women more powerful, its all part of the reason why boys are wearing long hair
02/12/1966 Abse’s Bill and the shipping lobby
02/12/1966 How sex could start a war
02/12/1966 Medicine: surgery a body to match the mind
02/12/1966 Emphasis on normality
02/12/1966 Christmas books: hypergamy for ever, by Brigid Brophy
02/12/1966 ‘Sink of filth’: coffee bar man jailed
02/12/1966 Letter, by R Knott
02/12/1966 Letter, by F Pilkington
02/12/1966 Letter, by E J Stirzaker
03/12/1966 Crossfire: a change in the law, by David Wood
04/12/1966 Movies: boudoir battle shifts from wide to home screen, by Peggy Hudson
05/12/1966 A change of gender
05/12/1966 Letter: human ,by “The Guardian”
07/12/1966 Light on sexual problems, by Frances Castle
08/12/1966 Call to ban seamen from sex Bill
08/12/1966 Seamen’s demand
08/12/1966 Merchant navy and sex Bill
08/12/1966 Sex Bill: exclude M.N. say union
08/12/1966 Sex Bill plea by seamen
08/12/1966 Sex Bill plea by seamen
08/12/1966 Seamen seek exemption form Bill
08/12/1966 Robbed firm to pay the demands of a blackmailer
09/12/1966 Seamen’s plea
09/12/1966 Homosexual bill in rough waters
09/12/1966 Letter: sexual freedom, by Allan Horsfall
09/12/1966 Letter: homosexuality the final word, by K Abbey
09/12/1966 Stole to meet blackmailer’s demands
11/12/1966 The spycatchers: they track down listening devices hidden in carpet tracks, ink pots, wall lamps and cigarette pockets in the anti-bugging war, by Jack Aitken
11/12/1966 Bench orders book to be destroyed
11/12/1966 A book that went too far
12/12/1966 ‘Last Exit’ ruled to be obscene: seized copies to be destroyed
13/12/1966 Mr. Parkyn to see P.M. today
13/12/1966 White House keep aloof in dispute about ‘bugging’
14/12/1966 ‘Last Exit’ snub for MP
16/12/1966 Liberal’s reply on sex bills
16/12/1966 Homosexuality: the Labour reactionaries
16/12/1966 (column by Ann Sheldon Williams: Ernest Hemingway’s attitude to homosexuality)
17/12/1966 Are the reformers coming off the boil?: political world by Norman Cook
17/12/1966 The job with the built in risk: Jenkins could become target for Tories, political commentary by Derek Moon
17/12/1966 Letter: dealing with the problem of the homosexual, by David Wood
18/12/1966 Letter: TV critics, by Alice Young
18/12/1966 Atticus: vicarious fun
18/12/1966 Should I go out on Christmas night?
19/12/1966 Seamen’s corruption fear: amending Sexual Offences Bill
19/12/1966 Telephone teams and desperate people, by Leslie Jillett
20/12/1966 Homosexuality Bill escapes a division, by Norman Shrapnel
20/12/1966 Homosexuals: ‘the brutal choice’
20/12/1966 Review: Ballad of the False Barman at Hampstead, by Philip Hope-Wallace
20/12/1966 Hampstead Theatre Club: The Ballad of the False Barman, by B A Young
20/12/1966 Go-ahead for vice bill: MPs say ‘yes’ without a vote, by William Wolff
20/12/1966 The arts: new escape into gothnick kinkery Hampstead Theatre Club: The Ballad of the False Barman, by Colin Spencer
20/12/1966 Approval for reform of homosexual law: and pledge by Jenkins
20/12/1966 Letter: Freudian view of renaissance art: Donatello ‘David’, by David W Tucker
20/12/1966 Mr Abse talks about brutal choice: bill aims to change ‘unenforceable law’
20/12/1966 No vote on homosexual bill
20/12/1966 Sex reform bill through without vote
20/12/1966 Commons told of ‘a brutal choice’
20/12/1966 Homosexual bill debate surprise
20/12/1966 Charge of heavy brigade, by Andrew Alexander
20/12/1966 Sex bill goes through in MPs’ vote mix up, by Alan Young
20/12/1966 Homosexual bill is given second reading
20/12/1966 Homosexual Bill: ‘yes’ without vote
20/12/1966 Homosexual bill goes ahead
20/12/1966 M.P.s in muddle at sex bill time, by Gordon Leak
20/12/1966 Abse’s sex bill goes forward
20/12/1966 Law’s ‘brutal choice’
20/12/1966 Sex Bill: no vote
20/12/1966 Homosexual bill gets unopposed reading
20/12/1966 MPs pass sex Bill
20/12/1966 MPs back new laws on vice
20/12/1966 Sexual Offences Bill goes through without vote
20/12/1966 Commons mix-up fools ‘opposition’
20/12/1966 Commons passes homosexual bill
20/12/1966 A bad bill – Mahon, MP
20/12/1966 MPs back Abse bill
20/12/1966 No vote . . .
20/12/1966 M.P.s pass Sex Offences Bill without a vote, by Maurice Trowbridge
20/12/1966 Unopposed second reading for sex Bill
20/12/1966 Homosexual Bill debate surprise
20/12/1966 Homosexuals offered ‘brutal choice’ by present law
20/12/1966 M.P. hits at sex laws
20/12/1966 Sexual Offences Bill surprise: opposition collapses, by Gordon Leak
20/12/1966 Homosexual Bill: Commons approval without vote, rejection move over Merchant Navy fails
20/12/1966 Muddle robs M.P.s of chance to vote
20/12/1966 Bill which caught MPs out . . .
20/12/1966 Abse’s bill given second reading
20/12/1966 Surprise end to homosexual bill debate
20/12/1966 Homosexuals have brutal choice, says M.P.
20/12/1966 Sex Bill passed without vote, by Robin Page
20/12/1966 Commons Bill on homosexuals
20/12/1966 Public attitudes
21/12/1966 Homosexual bill all but approved
21/12/1966 Homosexual bill
21/12/1966 Commons approves Bill on adult homosexuality
21/12/1966 Homosexual bill approved by parliament
21/12/1966 Strange debate
21/12/1966 A slur upon the democratic system
21/12/1966 Two city men fined £5
21/12/1966 (column by the Earl of Arran)
21/12/1966 No vote on homosexual measure
21/12/1966 (no title)
21/12/1966 Sex bill makes progress
21/12/1966 Homosexual bill well on way to be law
21/12/1966 Unopposed MPs vote to reform sex law: adult homosexuals
21/12/1966 Futile to use vote
21/12/1966 Sex sentences may be reviewed
22/12/1966 Sex prisoners
22/12/1966 Vice cases review
22/12/1966 Sex sentences review likely
22/12/1966 The world of science: sex-change surgery, by David Tafler
22/12/1966 Letter: giving a present to Jesus, by H Clark
23/12/1966 The voice of Scotland: bizarre bill
23/12/1966 Letter: forecast on a bill: great problems in reform of sex laws, by Capt. Walter Elliot MP
23/12/1966 Letter: forecast on a bill: great problems in reform of the sex laws, by Leslie Hogan
23/12/1966 Debate of high quality on Mr. Leo Abse’s Bill: Wales in Westminster, by Geraint Morgan, M.P.
23/12/1966 Letter: who knows: one day, by Douglas Annette
24/12/1966 Wolfenden at last
24/12/1966 Homosexual law reform bill carried
27/12/1966 Letter: they can’t convince me, by Gibson T MacDonald
29/12/1966 I think Mr. Abse’s Bill a step in the right direction: my wishes for 1967 by Maureen Knight, who pleads for tolerance
29/12/1966 Sex bill will not stop blackmail – M.P.
29/12/1966 For ‘with-it’ mums and housewives
29/12/1966 The psychology of chess, by Jonathan Penrose
29/12/1966 When today’s news becomes history, by Walter Lacquer
30/12/1966 Letter: homosexuality law reform ,by Mr A S A East
30/12/1966 Report form Westminster, by John L Hunt, MP for Bromley
30/12/1966 The Sexual Offences Bill: Twickenham MP backs it
30/12/1966 Great Britain: dealing with deviate
31/12/1966 Sexual Offences Bill
31/12/1966 Homosexual offences bill
13/07/1966 6 Years for labourer
08/11/1966 Hammer death: boy gets two years

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