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PREM19/1792
Home Affairs (Obscenity legislation (video nasties): meetings with Mary Whitehouse)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 266

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Date Value Title
83 Jun 23 Th Major Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to MT (obscenity legislation and ‘video nasties’) [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 4 Mo Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Mary Whitehouse (obscenity legislation and ‘video nasties’) [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 2 Fr Major Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to MT (obscenity legislation and ‘video nasties’) [“I have felt both unhappy and frustrated since our meeting with the Home Secretary”] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with Mary Whitehouse: arrangements) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Home Affairs: Home Office briefing for MT (meeting with Mary Whitehouse: ‘video nasties’) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 17 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Your Meeting with Mrs. Whitehouse”) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 19 We Major Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to No.10 (obscenity legislation) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 25 Tu Major Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to No.10 (censorship of video releases) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 25 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Home Secretary: Obscenity”) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 26 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [obscenity laws] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Your Meeting with Graham Bright”) [Video Recordings Bill] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 23 We Major Home Affairs: Lord Nugent letter to MT (report on child viewing of ‘video nasties’) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major Home Affairs: Lord Nugent letter to MT (reform of the Obscene Publications Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 19 Th Major Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (“Video Recordings Bill”) [certification] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Home Affairs: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“Re: Video Recordings”) [legislation on certification] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (Lord Nugent’s proposals for revision of the Obscene Publication Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 6 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lord Nugent, Lord Halsbury) [revision of the Obscene Publication Act 1959] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major Home Affairs: Lord Nugent of Guildford letter to MT (Obscene Publications Act) [follow-up to conversation about draft Bill] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 18 We Major Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act) [recommended approach to handling of the Bill] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 31 Tu Major Home Affairs: Tebbit letter to Hurd (“Mr Churchill’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act”) [declassified 2014]