Subject: Censorship -- Great Britain -- History (Keywords)

The launch of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign made the Christian school-teacher a media star overnight. Over the next 37 years, her name became a byword for censoriousness. All the letters this campaigner sent, and most of the many thousands she received, were preserved. Sifting through ...

This text reveals the story of the censorship of popular music in Britain. The censorship is detailed from the point of production in record companies, through retail outlets, attempts to prosecute records (and covers) in radio and television bans and in banned concerts and raves.

This is the official history of the British Board of Film Classification. It includes case studies of controversial films and film genres and is illustrated with material from the BBFC's archive.

Alan Travis examines censorship, from the time of Queen Victoria and the Obscene Publications Act, through to the present day and the impact of the Internet and the Web on free expression.

From the early peepshows ("How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed"), through to the video and satellite anomalies of today, this book explores film censorship in Britain, demonstrating, through anecdotes and examples, its absurdities, dangers and occasional virtues.

The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politi...

Marlowe's "Dr Faustus" is the play that has given us the legend of Faustus, the man for whom the price of knowledge was eternal damnation. But this work challenges the integrity of the text as we have it, and with it, the shape of the Faust myth it inspired.