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Before the passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act

Posted by: mcmahonp Posted on: 8 June 2017 Categories: tagged articlesHistory tagged articlesPolitics

Emily Bourne, Assistant Archives Officer, takes a closer look at Lord Beaverbrook's Private Papers from the Parliamentary Archives. In the long run up to the passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which partly decriminalised male homosexuality, the lives of individuals …