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Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) [2] was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
Mar 5, 2022 · The Christian decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse's name became shorthand for anti-liberal prudery and censorship, but more than 20 years after her death, do her diaries reveal a woman who was...
Mary Whitehouse was famous – or infamous – for her extensive campaigns against ‘filth’ in British television and radio programmes, films and music in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
Mar 29, 2022 · It’s difficult for those who weren’t around at the time to imagine Mary Whitehouse. There is no shortage of attempts at pithy description in the BBC’s new two-part documentary, Banned!
***TOO LONG*** Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
The Mary Whitehouse Story. In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society.
Mar 29, 2022 · At a time when debates about free speech feel increasingly polarised, this series looks back at the life of Mary Whitehouse, a Midlands teacher and housewife who ran a 30-year campaign to turn...
May 28, 2008 · In 1963 an unknown housewife and teacher from the Midlands, Mary Whitehouse, embarked on a mission to clean up British television. Her crusade led her into battle with the man she held...
Feb 3, 2020 · Mary Whitehouse was a social conservative campaigner who set her sights on the ‘permissive society’ – the liberalising of social norms – that, she believed, was exposing children to more sex and violence on television. A lot of her work was done throughout the 1960s with her Clean Up TV campaign.
Dec 3, 2001 · Mary Whitehouse, a British schoolteacher and mother of three who for more than 30 years campaigned vociferously against sex, violence and blasphemy on television, stage and screen, died on...
