(Class & Values) Opponents of the liberal society, 1951-79 Flashcards
What is often said about the reality of the liberal society?
According to who?
It occured in the newspapers, not people’s bedrooms.
Dominic Sandbrook
How did most people feel about sex at the end of the 60s?
Conservatively - sensational reports of scandals in newspapers gave a misleading picture of how the nation felt.
Who led the conservative reaction to the perceived decline in moral standards?
Campaigners such as Mary Whitehouse.
What did Mary Whitehouse co-find?
When?
The National Viewers and Listeners Association (NVALA)
1965
Who did the NVLA attract?
4
Campaigners
Senior CofE bishops
Chief police
MPs
What did the NVLA oppose?
Sex, violence and swearing on TV.
What did the members of the NVLA oppose permissiveness with?
A creeping socialism in Britain
How many members of the NVLA did Whitehouse claim to attract?
What did this show?
100,000
Ideas about a moral decline were widespread.
Where were members of the NVLA predominantly based?
Outside London
What were successes of the NVLA?
4
Influenced legislation banning child pornography in the Protection of Children Act 1978.
Influenced legislation surrounding indecent advertisements with the Indecent Displays Act of 1981.
Banned the film ‘Deep Throat’.
Launched campaigns against Gay News as it was seen as blasphemous.
The NVLA generally ______ curb the _____ of _______ _________.
a) didn’t
b) flow
c) social liberalism
