TY - BOOK ID - 85473175 TI - The Battle for Christian Britain : Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945-1980 PY - 2019 SN - 1108367593 1108373100 1108421229 1108431615 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sex customs KW - Sexual ethics KW - Secularism KW - Ethics KW - Irreligion KW - Utilitarianism KW - Atheism KW - Postsecularism KW - Secularization (Theology) KW - Sex KW - Sex ethics KW - Sexual behavior, Ethics of KW - Customs, Sex KW - Human beings KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Manners and customs KW - Moral conditions KW - History KW - Religious aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Church history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473175 AB - Post-war British culture was initially dominated by religious-led sexual austerity and, from the sixties, by secular liberalism. Using five case studies of local licensing and a sixth on the BBC, conservative Christians are exposed here as the nation's censors, fighting effectively for purity on stage, screen and in public places. The Anglican-led Public Morality Council was astonishingly successful in restraining sex in London's media in the fifties, but a brazen sexualised culture thrived amongst the millions of tourists to Blackpool, whilst Glasgow and the Isle of Lewis were gripped by conservatism. But come the late 1960s, tourists took Blackpool's sexual liberalism home, whilst progressive Humanism burrowed into Parliament and the BBC to secularise moral reform and the national narrative. Using extensive archival research, Callum G. Brown adopts a secular gaze to show how conservative Christians lost the battle for the nation's moral culture. ER -