The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists, and Secularisation, 1945-1980, by Callum G. Brown

A. W. Purdue is sceptical about an analysis of the great debates about sexual and other freedoms that marked the dawn of a more permissive era

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January 2, 2020

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