The pornography of permissiveness: Men's sexuality and women's emancipation in mid twentieth-century Britain

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-140

  Collins, Marcus ^a  

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ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; SEXUALITY; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EROTICA; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MEN; MEN'S HEALTH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PERMISSIVENESS; PUBLIC OPINION; SEXUALITY; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33847191576     PISSN: 13633554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/1999.47.99     Document Type: Article

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1. The fullest account accessible to non-economists is in Alec Cairncross and Barry Eichengreen, Sterling in Decline, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1983.
2. Colin Nicholson, Writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1994, is the most conspicuous example of the work beginning to be done in this field for the period of the financial revolution.
3. Harold Wilson, The Labour Government 1964-1970. A Personal Record, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1971, p. 6. Wilson aside, virtually every commentator agrees that the 1949 devaluation did Labour little if any harm, a view supported by contemporary newspapers and opinion polls.
4. House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Fifth series, vol. 701, c. 38.
5. Cairncross and Eichengreen, Sterling, pp. 166-7.
6. See Bernard Porter, Britannia's Burden, London, Edward Arnold, 1994, c. 308.
7. The point was made repeatedly in 1956. See, for example, Lord Attlee, House of Lords Debates, 2 August 1956, c. 733,
8. and 'A Cease-fire?', Manchester Guardian, 6 Nov. 1956.
9. Guardian, 5 Dec. 1956, p. 6.
10. Mail, 20 Sep. 1957, p. 1.
11. Times, 15 April 1965, p. 16.
12. Sun, 15 July 1966, p. 1
13. Sun, 21 July 1966, p. 1.
14. Times, 10 June 1966, p. 12.
15. Times, 21 Nov. 1967, p. 8.
16. Observer, 17 July 1966, p. 7.
17. Mail, 10 Nov. 1967, p. 6.
18. Mail, 18 Nov. 1967, p. 6.
19. Commons Debates, vol. 754, c. 1190.
20. Commons Debates, vol. 754, c. 1375.
21. 'Cato', Guilty Men, Gollancz, 1940, esp. chap. 1.
22. Sunday Telegraph, 19 Nov. 1967.
23. Sunday Telegraph, 24 Dec. 1967, p. 16;
24. William Davis, Guardian, 12 March 1966.
25. Sun, 19 July 1966, p. 1.
26. Guardian, 14 Feb. 1966, p. 12.
27. Sunday Telegraph, 26 Nov. 1967.
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31. Commons Debates, vol. 754, c. 1374.
32. Henry Brandon, In the Red. The Struggle for Sterling 1964-1966, Andre Deutsch, 1966, p. 114, offers the following: 'After two years of periodic coronary attacks, the heartbeat of the pound, as it is daily registered on the cardiograph of the exchange market, had become steadier.'
33. Mail, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 6.
34. Times, 10 March 1966, p. 11.
35. Times, 17 March 1966, p. 13.
36. Mail, 18 July 1966, p. 1.
37. Sun, 24 Nov. 1967, p. 2.
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39. Commons Debates, vol. 751, c. 101.
40. R. H. S. Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. 2, Hamilton, Cape, 1976, pp. 578-9.
41. Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre, Random House, 1991, p. 214.
42. Times, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 9.
43. Cairncross and Eichengreen, Sterling in Decline, p. 4.
44. David Marquand, 'Sir Stafford Cripps', in Age of Austerity, M. Sissons and P. French (eds), Hodder and Stoughton, 1963, p. 185.
45. Mail, 22 Nov. 1967, p. 8.
46. Sun, 28 Nov. 1967, p. 6.
47. Guardian, 23 Nov. 1967, p. 10.
48. The following figures are taken from George H. Gallup (gen. ed.), The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls. Great Britain 1937-1965, Random House, 1976, vol. 2.
49. The government's popularity did not recover from these miserable levels until it despatched troops to Northern Ireland in August 1969.
50. Times, 21 Nov. 1967, p. 2.
51. Express, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 4;
52. Mail, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 1.
53. Guardian, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 5.
54. Sun, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 3.
55. James Callaghan, Time and Chance, Collins, 1987, p. 222.
56. House of Lords Debates, fifth series, vol. 286, c. 926.
57. Sun, 20 Nov. 1967, p. 1. (Report of Cromer's remarks on ITV on 19 Nov.)
58. Wilson, Labour Government, p. 463.
59. To raise a $1m loan in London after devaluation would require £416,667 as opposed to £357,143 before. Similarly, a New York banker would now only need to raise $1.2m to finance a £500,000 loan, instead of $1.4m. The same principle obviously applied where a British and an American bank competed to lend money in a third currency.
60. Lords Debates, vol. 286, c. 929-30.
61. Michael Stewart (The Jekyll and Hyde Years: Politics and Economic Policy since 1964, J. M. Dent, 1977, pp. 84, 34-5), misses some of the point when he suggests that Cromer's motive was revenge for Wilson's defiance of his peremptory demands in 1964 that Labour adopt, in effect, a Tory economic policy.
62. See Wilson, Labour Government, pp. 34-8 for an account of that remarkable confrontation.
63. Margot Naylor, 'The New Pound and Me', Money Mail (financial supplement to the Mail), 22 Nov. 1967, p. 1.
64. Mail, 23 Nov. 1967, p. 13.
65. Mail, 1 Dec. 1967, p. 15.
66. Sun, 1 August 1966, p. 1.
67. Sun, 27 Nov. 1967, p. 10.
68. Lords Debates, vol. 286, c. 962.
69. Eccles was Chairman of West Cumberland Silk Mills, and a director of Courtaulds, the synthetic fibres and chemicals giant. Details concerning politicians' business interests are drawn principally from A. Roth and J. Kerbey, Lord on the Board, Parliamentary Profiles, 1972;
70. A. Roth, The Business Background of Members of Parliament, Parliamentary Profiles, [1963].
71. Lords Debates, vol. 286, c. 942. Aldington's interests in finance included being chairman of Exporters Refinance Co. and National and Grindlays Bank, and director of National and Grindlays Finance and Development Corp., National Discount Co., and London Assurance (which owned insurance companies in Europe, America, Canada and Australia). He also had extensive industrial interests including directorships in steel, engineering, chemicals, potteries, quarrying, mining and shipbuilding. He was chairman of General Electric UK, and United Power Company (Nuclear Energy).
72. Sunday Telegraph 26 Nov. 1967, p. 16.