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30 de abr. de 2024 · Douglas and William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary at the time, were well-matched in their conservative sensibilities. Joynson-Hicks also seized typescripts of D. H. Lawrence’s poetry collection Pansies in 1929, suppressed birth control publications, and had designs to crack down on nightclubs by organizing raids.
3 de mai. de 2024 · Arguing that the novel posed a risk to the moral integrity of young men and women, Douglas successfully pressed the (also deeply conservative) home secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, to take legal action against The Well of Loneliness.
Há 5 dias · The most notorious example of the influence of the social purity movement came in 1928 when Sir Chartres Biron, presiding Magistrate, “ordered the destruction of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, a polemical novel pleading for social tolerance for lesbianism,” which was initially banned by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks.
Há 1 dia · The World Crisis. The Second World War. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. v. t. e. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to ...
Há 5 dias · That much work remained to be done was demonstrated by parliamentary debates on the 1923 Budget, when the call to reduce the tax on attendances was brusquely rejected by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who noted that much of the money spent by picturegoers found its way to the USA, the source of ...
22 de abr. de 2024 · Sir William Joynson-Hicks (Secretary of State for Hone Affairs), in a letter to the Bradford Chamber of Commerce in reply to representations regarding ...
29 de abr. de 2024 · Incluso el ministro del Interior, William Joynson-Hicks, se ha involucrado personalmente en el caso. Pasan los días sin rastro de ella.
