Records of the Public Morality Council

Summary of Contents

Constitution

Minutes - Council

Executive Committee

Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee

Parliamentary, Patrol and Propaganda Sub-Committee

Stage Plays, Radio and T.V. Sub-Committee

Cinema Sub-Committee

Papers - Council

Executive Committee

Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee

Parliamentary, Patrol and Propaganda Sub-Committee

Patrolling Officer's Reports

Stage Plays, Radio and T.V. Sub-Committee

Cinema Sub-Committee

Hygiene Sub-Committee

Wartime Committee

Related Files

Membership of Council and Committees

Annual Reports

Annual Public Meetings

Hyde Park Meetings

Conferences and Talks

Administration and General Correspondence

Accounts

Links with Other Societies

P.M.C. Publications

Magazines, Films and Other Publications

Records

Scarcely any of the early records survive, the earliest useful series being the annual reports, 1901-1913, 1932-1954. Minutes of the Council and its Sub-committees cover 1940-1965.

The files have been placed in categories according to administrative use and subject but the majority of them contain a certain amount of miscellaneous material.

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• <corpname>London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality</corpname>

Deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 17 and 23 April 1970 (Ac. 70.31 & 70.36)

Introductory note

The London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality, later the Public Morality Council, was formed in 1899 to combat vice and indecency in London and to assist in their repression by legal means, already existing but neglected. Its members included representatives of the Church of England, Roman Catholic and Non-conformist churches and of the Jewish faith, leaders in education, medicine and charitable associations and others supporting reform. It continued until 1969, concentrating latterly on opposition to sexual immorality and pornography in general and in the theatre, cinema, radio and television. Its functions were taken over by the Social Morality Council, constituted in 1969.