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1983 May 18 - 1986 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1792
Home Affairs (Obscenity legislation (video nasties): meetings with Mary Whitehouse)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 266
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86 Jan 14 Tu Major Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 22 We Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee on Tuesday”) [the Churchill Bill; radioactive waste] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 24 Mo Major Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Obscene Publications Amendment Bill) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 21 Mo Major Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to MT (meeting with Home Secretary: legislation on obscenity) [“never been more disappointed in any meeting with any Minister”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 24 Th Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Judge King-Hamilton (legislation on obscenity) [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 4 Mo Major Home Affairs: Hurd minute to MT (meeting with Mary Whitehouse: legislation on obscenity) [“Mrs Whitehouse’s account of our meeting is misleading”] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 5 Tu Major Home Affairs: Judge King-Hamilton letter to MT (Mary Whitehouse Research and Education Trust) [obscenity draft Bill; school exams; income tax] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 29 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (present legislation on obscenity) [meeting with Mary Whitehouse] [declassified 2014]
86 Aug 31 Su Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [law on obscenity] [declassified 2014]
86 Sep 30 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Obscenity Legislation”) [declassified 2014]