The following is a brief preliminary listing of the Archives of the National Viewers and Listeners' Association which were placed on permanent deposit in the Albert Sloman Library in July 1993. It is envisaged that a more detailed list, concentrating more thoroughly on correspondence between Mary Whitehouse and prominent figures in the worlds of broadcasting and government, will be produced in the future.
Users are informed that efforts have been made to ensure the retention of the original archival integrity of the collection. As a result, material has been kept, where possible, in the same order, and under the same headings, that it was originally filed. For this reason, documentation relating to a specific topic may, quite naturally, be found in different parts of the archive. For example, items concerning the controversial film Last Tango in Paris may be located in the specific file on that film, in the Nationwide Festival of Light section, and in the boxes of correspondence with the Home Office. In order to maximize the utility of the collection users are advised to adopt a similar, flexible approach when researching other topics.
The NVALA constitution* conventions*, publications
Monitoring: TV, films, theatrical productions
BBC / IBA: Mary Whitehouse / viewers correspondence
Politicians / legal matters / Parliament / litigation* (including Box 65(a) Obscene Publications Act 1959: supplementary correspondence and papers )
Books, articles, etc by and about Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence
Issues / organisations / individuals
Mary Whitehouse's overseas correspondence, tours and visits
John Beyer- correspondence
Press cuttings
Audio visual material
*In accordance with conditions of deposit by the NVALA, access to these files is not available. Details of items are therefore not included in the following lists.
Clean- up TV Campaign 1964 - 1965 miscellaneous documents
Birmingham Town Hall meeting 5 May 1964 miscellaneous documents
Meeting 25 February 1965 to discuss establishment of Viewers' and Listeners' Council NVALA, miscellaneous early material
Conventions - 1966 - 1971, 1974 - 1981, 1981 (Northern), 1982 - 1991
Annual award:
Reports and other booklets alphabetically by title:
An assessment of replies from Members of Parliament to a questionnaire on certain moral issues 1978 (2 copies)
Blasphemy, bad language, swearing on television, a monitoring project 30th August - 12th September 1986
Broadcasting and the Law nd (198?)
Cable television: the NVALA- submission to the Hunt Committee nd (198?)
Cable television: the NVALA- recommendations on the control and monitoring of cable TV as presented to the Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. William Whitelaw MP 17th December 1982 (2 copies)
Direct broadcasting by satellite: the NVALA- comments on the Home Office study May 1981 (2 copies)
Evidence to the Peacock Committee on financing the BBC 1985 (2 copies)
'It makes you wonder why you bother' : an assessment of replies from the BBC and IBA top viewers complaints about programme content nd (198?) (2 copies)
Law - and disorder: a report on the depiction of police officers in television programmes, 'Target'
(BBC 1) and 'The Sweeney' (ITV) Autumn 1978, 1979
Obscene Publications Act 1959 - the need for the new Law 1986? (2 copies)
'Politics and pornography' by Count Nikolai Tolstoy 1981
Pornography - a matter of taste? nd (1980?)
Pornography, harm and Williams by John H Court 1980 (2 copies)
A Public disservice nd (1980?) (2 copies)
Putting its own house in order? A six month assessment of 'moments of violence' in BBC TV programmes 1984
Recommendations on an amendment to the Obscene Publications Act 1959 and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission 1986
A report on school children- viewing habits 1977
Seven days of violence, no 3: a one week survey of violence in television programmes 1987 (2 copies)
Submission to Council of Europe Committee on Culture and Education: hearing on violence: Assisi 1 - 3 September 1982 (with addendum containing verbal contribution to be made by Mary Whitehouse) (2 copies)
Television programmes and AIDS 1987 (2 copies)
'There can be no defence...' violence in television programmes nd (198?) (2 copies)
£34 for this! 1980 (2 copies)
'To protect from vilification...': a report to the Law Commission on the future of the blasphemy Law nd (1980?)
'Video nasties': the NVALA- recommendations to the Home Secretary on the control of obscene videograms nd (1983?)
What does go on? Report of complaints received by NVALA of ITV programmes between September 1983 and September 1984
What price Annan? A report on the response of the broadcasting authorities to certain findings of the Report of the Committee on the future of Broadcasting 1978 (2 copies)
Where there- smoke - fire! An address by John H Court 1977
Williams - 'Not True': a review of the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship by Dr Inge Krogh 1980
List of books, booklets, leaflets available from NVALA (2 copies)
National V.A.L.A. News No 2 November 1967
Spring 1969 | Spring 1970 | Spring 1973 | Winter, 1973 | Spring 1975
January 1976 | Autumn 1976 | June 1978 (2 copies) | October 1978 (2 copies) | Winter 1978/9
Spring 1979 (2 copies) | Summer 1979 (2 copies) | Winter 1979/80 | April 1980 | Autumn 1980
Winter 1981 (2 copies) | Spring/Summer 1981 (2 copies) | Autumn 1981 (2 copies) | Winter 81/82 (2 copies)
Summer 1982 (2 copies) | Autumn 1982 | Winter 1983 | Summer 1983 | Autumn 1983 (2 copies) | Spring 1985
Autumn 1985 (2 copies) | Spring 1986 (2 copies) | Spring 1987 (extract?) (2 copies) | Summer 1987 (2 copies) | Summer 1988
March 1975 - September 1975 (monthly) | November 1975 | January 1976 - October 1976 (monthly) | June 1977
July 1977 | October/November 1977 | May 1978 - July 1978 (monthly) | September 1978 - November 1978 (monthly) | February/March 1979 | (Duplicate copies held for a number of issues)
News sheet April 1976 (2 copies)
Newsletters 1976 - 1985
Publications (including Regarding the Guardians: an assessment of three TV crime series, 1978)
Press cuttings
General introductory material (guidance notes etc) on monitoring
Early monitoring of programmes 1966 - 1969?
Individual monitoring surveys/projects
Monitoring of programmes for schools 1970 - 71 (Correspondence & monitoring returns)
Television viewing questionnaires for those under 18 (1977) (Including returns taken to first and second stages of analysis)
NVALA Report on school children- viewing habits 1977
Lists of complaints made about BBC programmes 1983 (2 copies) & 1984
Monitoring swearing blasphemy 1986 (returns)
Monitoring cards 1985 - 86
Television monitoring returns 1987
Monitoring acts of violence 31 August - 6 September 1985 returns and printed report entitled: Seven days violence
Monitoring acts of violence 1 - 7 March 1986 returns and printed report entitled: Seven days violence No 2
Monitoring acts of violence 29 August - 4 September 1987 returns
Monitoring project 1 - 89: Violence (Seven days violence No 4) 2 - 8 September 1989 volunteer forms & monitoring returns
Monitoring of the incidence of drinking on TV 1975 returns etc
Circular re: special monitoring project : Drinking on radio and television 23 September - 27 October 1979
Monitoring drinking on television 27 August - 9 September 1988 returns etc
Monitoring project:: Human relationships 5 - 18 September 1992 returns
The Devils 1971
Big Zapper 1973
A Clockwork Orange 1973
Night Hair Child 1973
Last Tango in Paris 1973/74
Blow Out (La Grande Bouffe) 1973/74
More About the Language of Love 1974
The Exorcist 1974
ICA- forum on censorship (proposed showing of pornographic films) 1975
Thorsen- Sex Life of Christ 1976
The Life of Brian 1979/80
Cruising 1980
Caligula 1980
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
Ulysses (BBC Sept 1973
Rosemary's Baby (BBC Oct 1976)
Belle de Jour (BBC 1979)
Le Souffle au Coeur (Dearest Love) (BBC 1979)
The Gambler (ITV 1981)
Jubilee & Sebastiane (Channel 4 1985)
Themroc (Channel 4 1986)
Scum (Channel 4 June 1983)
All my Loving (BBC 1968/69)
Dance of the Seven Veils (BBC 1970)
Till Death us do Part (BBC)
The Frost Programme (Yippie Show) (ITV 1970)
Circle Line (BBC 1971)
The Question of Ulster (BBC 1972)
Sex in our Time (ITV 1976)
Hitting Town (ITV 1976)
Gotcha (BBC 1977)
Person to Person (Interview with Mary Whitehouse) (BBC 1979)
Death of a Princess (ATV 1980)
Made in Britain (ITV 1983)
Real Lives (BBC 1985)`1
Oh! Calcutta! (1969) (and subsequent film 1973)
Council of Love (1970)
Romans in Britain (1980)
Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones 1972)
School's Out (Alice Cooper 1972)
So What (The Anti- Nowhere League)
Inside Linda Lovelace (1976)
Radio programmes:
World at One (16 Jan 1967) (Libellous remarks by Johnny Speight)
BBC / Mary Whitehouse correspondence 1964 - 1986, 1989
BBC / viewers' correspondence 1963, 1964, 1966 - 1968, 1970 - 1973, 1977 - 1985
Correspondence with Sir Michael Swann Chairman of the BBC 1 Jan 1973 - 16 Sept 1980
A year at the BBC 1974
The autonomy of broadcasters 1974
Education, the media and the quality of Life 1976
Broadcasting, society and the state 1977
Press cuttings relating to Sir Michael Swann
Lord Normanbrook 1965 and 1967
Sir Hugh Carlton Greene - Director General BBC 1968
Lord Hill - Chairman BBC 1967 - 1973
Sir Charles Curran - Director General BBC 1973 - 1977
(and addresses: The independence of the broadcaster 1975 and Television sport- advertising and sponsorship 1977)
Alasdair Milne's Director General BBC 1984 - 1986
Sir Ian Trethowan - Director General BBC 1974 - 1982
(plus press cuttings file)
George Howard's Governor/Chairman BBC 1979 - 1982
Stuart Young's Chairman BBC 1983 - 1986
NVALA (1967?) petition to the BBC
BBC Press cuttings 1968, 1979 - 1985
Broadcasting and the public mood 1968
NVALA statement re: visit of James Dance MP and Mary Whitehouse to Broadcasting House 5 June 1969
The BBC and advertising: notes on a restatement of BBC policy and practice issued to staff in December 1975
The portrayal of violence in television programmes: suggestions for a revised note of BBC guidance 1979
NVALA evidence to the Committee on Financing the BBC 1985
Newspaper cuttings re: proposals for the reorganisation of radio broadcasting 1969 - 1970
NVALA report to Sir John Eden entitled: Recommendations as to how viewers' and listeners' views can best be represented September 1973
Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the report to Sir John Eden
NVALA proposal for a Broadcasting Commission/Council [nd]
NVALA submission to Broadcasting Standards Council 1988
Broadcasting Standards Council 1989
NVALA report: 'It makes you wonder why you bother' (NVALA assessment of replies from the BBC and IBA to viewers' complaints) 1982 (copy of report and various drafts)
Viewers correspondence (on which report was based) 1979 - 1981 arranged under various headings:
Mary Whitehous's correspondence with Lord Hill - Chairman ITA 1966 - 1967
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with Lord Aylestone - Chairman ITA 1968 - 1973
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with Sir Robert Fraser - Director General ITA 1967 - 1970
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with Brian Young - Director General ITA [later IBA] 1970 - 1982
Mary Whitehouse / ITA general correspondence 1967 - 1972
Mary Whitehouse / IBA general correspondence 1972 - 1986
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with various ITV companies 1967 - 1989
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with Lady Plowden - Chairman IBA 1975 - 1980
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with Lord Thomson - Chairman IBA 1980 - 1986
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with George Russell - Chairman IBA 1989
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with John Whitney - Director General IBA 1983 - 1986
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with IBA Governors 1985 - 1986
ITA [later IBA] & ITV companies: correspondence with viewers 1966 - 1986
ITA [later IBA] press cuttings, press notices / news releases
Mary Whitehouse / Channel 4 correspondence 1980 - 1986
Channel 4 viewers' correspondence 1981 - 1986
Channel 4 press cuttings & Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with newspapers re: Channel 4
IBA news releases re: Channel 4 1979 - 1984
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with MPs 1964 - 1986
Questionnaire sent to candidates in General Election February & March 1974 re: Christian teaching in schools, broadcasting & television, the cinema, public decency, and sex education (Replies)
Questionnaire sent to MPs May - September 1974 eliciting their views on the control of indecent displays, the licensing of obscene & violent films, and sex education in schools (Replies)
Questionnaire sent to MPs July 1978 re: broadcasting, obscene publications, religious education, sex education, and blasphemy (Replies, published assessment of results, correspondence and news cuttings)
Mary Whitehouse's election campaign 1983 (news cuttings etc)
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with MPs re: annual debate on broadcasting 1985
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with the DPP 1968 - 1991
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence with the Attorney General 1971 - 1985
Press cuttings relating to the DPP and the Attorney General
Correspondence with the Home Office and Home Secretary 1968 - 1986
Correspondence with 10 Downing Street 1965 - 1985
Correspondence with government ministers 1965 - 1982 (including Margaret Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science 1971)
Correspondence with the Postmaster General / Minister of Posts & Telecommunications 1965 - 1974
Correspondence with Edward Heath 1965 - 1974
Correspondence with A W Benn 1974
Correspondence with Sir Keith Joseph 1974 - 1976
Correspondence with party leaders 1978 - 1979
Membership list and terms of reference
Summaries of Committee- principal recommendations & relevant extracts from the report
Submissions from NVALA and other organisations
Responses to the Williams Report from NVALA and others
Background papers including:
Pornography, harm and Williams by John H Court
Television violence and the adolescent boy by William Belson
Pornography and rape in white South Africa by J H Court
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence 1977 - 1981
Meeting with the Home Secretary 20 February 1980
General Correspondence 1978 - 1981
Gay News blasphemy case 1978 and Blasphemy Bill 1978 correspondence, press cuttings, etc
Report of Conference 6 June 1968
Working Party on Obscenity Laws set up by Conference:
Membership List
Report May 1969
Correspondence (Mary Whitehouse and others) re: Conference
Miscellaneous notes, news clippings and transcripts
Correspondence (Mary Whitehouse)
Membership
Terms of reference
[Winston Churchill's private member's bill]:
Draft Bill as at 5 December 1985
Amendments made in Standing Committee C February and March 1986
Consideration of Bill 25 April 1986
Obscene Publications Act 1959 - the need for change
Obscene Publications Act 1959 - the need for new Law
Proposed bill to amend Obscene Publications Act 1959
Draft proposed amendments to the Obscene Publications Act 1959
Observations on proposed bill (handwritten notes by Mary Whitehouse)
Recommendations on an amendment to the Obscene Publications Act 1959 and to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, presented to the Home Secretary ... at the Home Office 7 July 1986 (2 copies)
Correspondence (Mary Whitehouse and others) 1985 and 1986
Statements by organisations and individuals
Text at 31 October 1973
Proceedings in Standing Committee B 22 November - 18 December 1973
Correspondence (Mary Whitehouse and others) 1973 - 1975
Miscellaneous documents relating to the bill
Press cuttings
Second Reading 26 January 1979 (Order paper)
Text at 27 June 1979
Text at 12 January 1981
Amendment to be moved in Committee by Lord Nugent of Guildford, the Earl of Halsbury and the Lord Bishop of London (March 1981)
Proceedings in Standing Committee C [n.d.]
Text as amended by Standing Committee C 11 March 1981 (2 copies)
Mary Whitehouse's notes on meetings with:
Leon Britten 17 July 1979
MPs 23 July 1979
Home Secretary 15 April 1981
Correspondence (Mary Whitehouse and others) 1979 - 1981
Newspaper cuttings
Correspondence, 16.8.1983 to 21.10.1990, including:
Correspondence with the Home Office (31.10.1984, 28.1.1985, 15.3.1985, 19.6.1985, 24.6.1985, 26.6.1985, 17.7.1985, 22.7.1985, 8.11.1985, 27.11.1985, 8.12.1985)
Correspondence with 10 Downing Street (14.1.1985, 10.5.1985, 17.6.1985, 21.10.1985, 24.10.1985, 12.11.1985, 11.12.1985)
Correspondence with MPs and members of the House of Lords (not listed)
Correspondence with Chief Constables [not listed]
Correspondence with His Honour Alan King Hamilton, 8.2.1985, 8.2.1985, 13.3.1985, 23.3.1985, 14.6.1985, 19.6.1985, 17.7.1985, 29.7.1985, 14.9.1985, 12.11.1985, 1.12.1985, 8.12.1985)
NVALA comments on the Obscene Publications Act, including:
Comments on Home Office comments on draft bill ……[nd]
The need for change [nd]
Memorandum on the next step … [nd]
Comments on Home Secretary’s letter … [nd]
Meeting with the Home Secretary, 15.4.1981
The need for new law [nd]
Script for audio-visual presentation [nd]
The need for new law: explanatory notes [nd]
Letter, 24.2.1986, from Mary Whitehouse to The Times
Recommendations on an amendment to the Obscene Publications Act 1959, and to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, July 1986
Press cuttings
NVALA monitoring; miscellaneous reports (not listed)
Cleaning up TV: from protest to participation 1967 - reviews, press cuttings, correspondence, miscellaneous items
Who does she think she is? 1971 - reviews, correspondence, etc
Happiness: a person anthology 1974 - correspondence, selection of items for inclusion
Mary Whitehouse by Max Caulfield 1976 - correspondence, reviews, press cuttings
Whatever happened to sex? 1977 - correspondence, press cuttings, miscellaneous materials used for book, typescript of book
A most dangerous woman 1982 - correspondence, reviews, press cuttings
Mightier than the Sword 1985 - correspondence, reviews, press cuttings, typescript and proof copies of book
Speeches, articles, contributions to magazines, etc, by Mary Whitehouse
(unsorted file includes miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes and drafts for articles / speeches, correspondence with publishers, and materials used by Mrs Whitehouse in the preparation of her own speeches and articles)
Magazine and newspaper interviews with / features on Mary Whitehouse
Material for books
Material re: articles to write 1973 - 1975
Early unidentified typescripts etc (unsorted)
A walk in the dark BBC Radio 2 1972 - correspondence
The controversialists BBC TV 1980 - correspondence
Thought for the day BBC Radio 4 6 - 9 February 1978 and 16 January 1981 - scripts
AM programme LBC, 27 January 1983 - transcript of item about Mary Whitehouse
Feed back BBC Radio 4 29 June 1984 - script
A voice crying in the wilderness BBC Radio 4 3 March 1985 - script
Opposition to the age: a study of the NVALA by M Tracey and D Morrison 1976 - typescripts
Whitehouse by M Tracey and D Morrison 1979 - draft chapters, typescript, reviews and correspondence
Correspondence between Mary Whitehouse and M Tracey 1973 - 1979
Clean Up TV campaign: letters from members of the public 1964 - 1965 (unsorted)
Letters to Mary Whitehouse from members of the public 1965 (unsorted)
Mary Whitehouse: general correspondence 1964 - 1988 (unsorted but gathered together by year)
Mary Whitehouse: general correspondence undated (unsorted)
Composition of juries: correspondence 1972 - 1977
Equal Opportunities Commission: correspondence and press cuttings 1976 - 1978
Peter Lennon- article in The Sunday Times 12 February 1978 correspondence etc
Award of CBE to Mary Whitehouse 1980 correspondence and press cuttings
Correspondence re: advertising 1976 - 1986 (unsorted)
Correspondence re: Mary Whitehouse's engagements and appointments 1970 - 1982 (unsorted)
Mary Whitehouse's UK tour 1979 - 1980 correspondence, press cuttings etc
Mary Whitehouse: international correspondence 1968 - 1974 (includes correspondence re: European tour 1968; but excludes correspondence re: visits to USA, Australia and South Africa)
Papers and correspondence re: Mary Whitehouse's attendance / participation at various international meetings 1973 - 1981
Mary Whitehouse: correspondence with churches 1977 - 1987 (unsorted)
Order of Christian Unity - correspondence with Mary Whitehouse and miscellaneous publications 1976 - 1983
Mary Whitehouse:
'The Family' Group meeting at the House of Commons 20 July 1978 miscellaneous documents
Miscellaneous press cuttings and other items relating to the family
School children's response to sex education films shown at the Modern School Madeley 1962
Correspondence with parents of children at Madeley Modern School re: sex education films
Mary Whitehouse's early correspondence re: sex education
Press cuttings 1963
Drafts of articles and papers by Mary Whitehouse c 1963
Miscellaneous early documents c 1963
Correspondence 1967 - 1987
'Sex education in the primary school' radiovision programmes BBC 1970 miscellaneous documents
Miscellaneous booklets, leaflets and other documents relating to sex education
Articles on sex education by Mary Whitehouse
Various unidentified / incomplete letters, notes etc by Mrs Whitehouse and Dr Sturdy
'Growing Up' film by Martin Cole correspondence etc 1970 - 1976 press cuttings
'The playbook for kids about sex' 1983 correspondence etc
General press cuttings on sex education
Correspondence etc (especially re: proposed Commission)
Miscellaneous articles etc
Press cuttings
Notes and jottings by Mrs Whitehouse
Routine correspondence etc 1979 - 1984
Significant correspondence 1981 - 1984
Miscellaneous documents
Press cuttings
Correspondence etc 1981 - 1987
Miscellaneous undated / unidentified items
Articles on Graham Bright- video bill 1983 - 1985
Press cuttings detailing progress of the video bill 1983 - 1985
Correspondence with MPs re: the video bill 1983 - 1985
Miscellaneous unsorted press cuttings re: videos
File on Trinity (Christian) Video 1983 - 1986
Correspondence etc 1981 - 1984
Press cuttings
Miscellaneous documents
Correspondence etc 1972 - 1988
Miscellaneous articles and documents
Press cuttings
NVALA report 'Law and disorder' 1979 (on TV detective shows Target and The Sweeney) : correspondence, miscellaneous documents and press cuttings
Correspondence 1973 - 1975
Miscellaneous documents
Press cuttings
Correspondence 1975 - 1989
Miscellaneous articles and documents
Press cuttings
Correspondence and press cuttings 1968
Correspondence 1976 - 1988
Press cuttings
Correspondence etc 1967 - 1972
Press cuttings
Crime (including sex crime) and violence 1969 - 1987
Political 1969 - 1986
Bias 1978
Religion 1977 - 1986
Children's / schools' broadcasting 1970 - 1986
'General evidence' 1971 - 1986
Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, press releases etc 1972 - 1983 (unsorted)
Nationwide Petition for Public Decency 1973 - correspondence, press cuttings etc (unsorted)
NFOL publications:
Broadsheets:
June 1973 | February 1974 | February 1975 | Spring 1976 | Autumn 1976
Spring 1977 |Summer 1977 | Autumn 1977 | Winter 1978
(1978? - 1983) Nos.4 - 6; 9 - 11; 15 & 16
Correspondence, circulars, press cuttings etc (includes reports / material on individual films, especially The Exorcist and Last Tango in Paris
Abuse leaflets
Newspaper cuttings
Miscellaneous documents re: ABUSE
Other publications re: child abuse
File on Protection of Children Bill/Act 1978
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence 1977 - 1978 (unsorted)
General correspondence 1977 - 1978
Correspondence re: newspaper articles by Mary Whitehouse on ABUSE 1977 - 1981
UK visit by Dr J Densen- Gerber (US campaigner against child abuse) 1978 - correspondence, speeches etc
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence 1976 - 1981
General correspondence 1977 - 1978
Miscellaneous publications
Newspaper cuttings
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence 1974 - 1984
General correspondence 1973 - 1984
Newspaper cuttings
Booklets, leaflets etc produced by the Society including:
Bulletin of the Responsible Society (later Family Bulletin) [1973 - 1987], Nos. 9-10; 12 - 14; 16 - 23; 26 - 28; 41 - 49
Miscellaneous documents
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence 1971 - 1985
General correspondence 1974 - 1985
Press cuttings
Miscellaneous documents
Press releases and publications including NCTV News 1980 - 1985
Correspondence, circulars, publications etc 1973 - 1986( including Society for Promotion of Community Standards)
including: Newsletter: nos. 27, 49, 54, 58 (1978 - 1985); CSA Newsletter: nos. 2, 4, 7 - 9, 12 (1975 - 1985)
Text of reply
Correspondence 1974 - 1975
Miscellaneous documents
Press cuttings
Correspondence and press cuttings
Mary Whitehouse's correspondence
Correspondence etc 1976
Correspondence etc 1977
Correspondence, 1984
Miscellaneous papers 1980 - 1983
Correspondence etc 1978 - 1985
Miscellaneous material including addresses etc delivered at Conventions in Cambridge 1973, 1975 and 1979 by Sir Charles Curran and others
'Children and television: a national survey among 7 - 17 year olds' Pye Ltd 1978
'Television programmes in Great Britain: content and control with special reference to violence and sex: a pilot study'Â by James D Halloran and Paul Croll, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester 1971
'Television violence and the adolescent boy' by William Belson 1977 (?)
'Who dares speak of love?' address on BBC Radio 3, December 1972 (transcript)
'Censorship: mass law- breaking in the mass media' article in New Law Journal 26 July 1973
'Can anyone still say porn does no harm?' article in the Daily Mail 28 July 1977
Press cuttings collected by David Holbrook 1974 - 1976
Charles Oxley: Correspondence 1977 - 1987
A S P Salter: Correspondence 1985
Mrs S K Stevens: Correspondence 1971 - 1975
Dr D C Sturdy: Correspondence etc 1964 - 1969
Various articles and publications, including 'Pornography and the Harm Condition - a response to the Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship (the Williams Report)' 1980
Revisions for new edition of Changing Community Standards jointly authored by Mary Whitehouse
Correspondence 1973 - 1981
Miscellaneous documents
Snaresbrook court appearance 1976 (press cuttings etc)
Correspondence with American individuals and organisation 1968 - 1986 (unsorted) [includes file on Hinson McAuliffe's visit to Britain March 1982]
Mary Whitehouse's US visit 1972: correspondence, press cuttings, photographs etc (unsorted)
Citizens for Decent Literature Inc (later Citizens for Decency Through Law) correspondence, miscellaneous documents etc including:
National Decency Reporter: Vol. VI 1969 nos. 9, 1; Vol. IX 1972 nos. 10 - 12; Vol. X 1973 nos. 1, 2; Vol. XI 1974 nos. 4, 5; Vol. XII 1975 no 3; Vol. XIII 1976 no 3; Vol. XV, 1978 no 6; Vol. IXX 1982 nos. 4 - 6; Vol. XX 1983 nos. 1, 3 - 5; Vol. XXI 1984 nos. 1, 3, 5; Vol. XXII 1985 nos. 1 - 3, 5, 7; Vol. XXIII 1987 no 1
Crusade Against Moral Pollution correspondence with Martha Rountree 1973
Widening Horizons: Vol. 11 1974 no 1; Vol. 12 1975 no 1; Vol. 14 1977/78 nos. 1, 3;
Persuasion at Work: Vol. I 1978 no 1; Vol. II 1979 no 2; Vol. III 1980 no 1;
The Rockford Papers: Vol. 2 1977 no 5; Vol. 3 1978 no 1; Vol. 5 1980 no 4; Vol. 6 1981 no 3; Vol. 7 1982 no 1
Mary Whitehouse's Australian and New Zealand visit 1973: correspondence, press cuttings and photographs (unsorted)
Mary Whitehouse's Australian and New Zealand visit 1978: correspondence, press cuttings etc (unsorted)
Mary Whitehouse's Australian visit 1984: correspondence, press cuttings, photographs (including several with Dame Edna Everage)
Memorabilia from various Australasian visits
Australian Festival of Light publications 1977 - 1984 including AFOL News Bulletins, Resource Papers, Light and Festival Focus
Mary Whitehouse's South African visit 1976: correspondence, press cuttings etc
Monte Carlo International Television Festival 1973: miscellaneous items
1976 - 1990 (unsorted)
Four boxes of miscellaneous newspaper cuttings (unsorted)
Obscene Publications - the need for new law (2 audio cassettes and 34 colour slides)
1980 Mary Whitehouse
1981 Mary Whitehouse & Cyril Smith(Northern Convention)
1983 Bo Carlsson & Mary Whitehouse
1984 Paul C McCommon III, Mary Whitehouse & Paul Johnson
1984 Afternoon session
1985 'Free for all' led by Charles Oxley
1986 Mary Whitehouse, Peter Imbert & Annual Award presented by Cliff Richard to Blue Peter
1986 Introduction by Tony Hughes, branch reports & John Beyer on publications and monitoring
1987 Mary Whitehouse, Rt Revd Graham Leonard (Bishop of London) & Annual Award presented by Sir Kenneth Newman to Crimewatch UK
Videotape of The Late show feature entitled: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Constitution
Conventions 1970 - 74
Awards 1970 - 71
Publications
Publications
Campaigns to outlaw pornography
Clean- up TV Campaign 1964 - 65
Save Religious Education Campaign
1968 - 69 TV Licence Campaign
Sex education
Programme surveys 1966
Mary Whitehouse : correspondence with MPs, 1964
Mary Whitehouse : correspondence with BBC 1969 - 76 (Sir Charles Curran)
Mary Whitehouse : general correspondence
Mary Whitehouse : correspondence, 1977 - 78 re child abuse
Mary Whitehouse : general correspondence, newspaper cuttings for "new book"
Mary Whitehouse : newspaper articles (1950s)
typescript for book (? title)
Mary Whitehouse : speeches
Mary Whitehouse: TV appearances
radio broadcast, 1978
Mary Whitehouse : conferences attended 1973. appointments 1971 and 1973
Mary Whitehouse : tour of Britain, 1979 - 80
Mary Whitehouse : photographs
Mary Whitehouse correspondence with 10 Downing Street including:
25 letters from Margaret Thatcher:
13.7.90 (photocopy) | 21.5.90 (photocopy) | 22.1.90 | 22.12.89 (photocopy) | February 1989 (photocopy) | 11.1.88 (photocopy)
16.9.87 | 19.5.86 | 18.4.86 | 5.7.85 (photocopy) | 15.4.85 | 27.6.84 | 4.7.83 | 27.6.83 (photocopy) | 23.6.83
23.2.83 | 21.12.82 | 14.12.82 | 31.8.82 | 15.2.82 | 20.8.81 (photocopy) | 25.4.80 | 2.10.79 | 9.9.79 | 19.4.79 (from Conservative Central Office)
20.5.94 | 10.1.94 (photocopy) | 15.10.93 | 9.3.92 | 3.2.92 | 5.5.92 | 18.11.91 | 20.9.91 (photocopy to Michael Alison) | 1.7.91 | 16.5.91
1.6.84 Neil Kinnock (photocopy)
28.5.84 David Owen (photocopy)
28.5.84 David Steel (photocopy)
7.2.83 William Whitelaw (photocopy)
8.6.81 William Whitelaw (photocopy)
Mary Whitehouse - speeches and articles 1976 - 93
NVALA Convention speeches 1977 - 91
Conservative Party Conference 1989
NVALA Publications
Viewer & Listener
Press releases 1981 - 93
Monitoring surveys 1975 - 96
Video Recordings Bill (1984) correspondence
Obscene Publications Act (1959) NVALA publications
Indecent Display Bill NVALA statement 1981
Council of Europe, papers and correspondence 1976 - 1990
John Beyer - correspondence 1976 - 1981
John Beyer - correspondence 1982 - 1989
Non- NVALA publications