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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Shaking up the Savoy
  9. 2. The Great London Smog of 1952: its consequences and contemporary relevance
  10. 3. Direct line to Beeching and beyond? The failure of the 1950s railway modernisation plan
  11. 4. Professor Gower, complacent academics and legal education
  12. 5. A university in (or of) Wales? Vaisey’s folly and St David’s College, Lampeter
  13. 6. Radio, The Listener and The Times: lessons from the 1950s in the public understanding of law
  14. 7. Divorce law reform and feminism in the 1950s
  15. 8. Mrs Gladys Hutchinson, Lord Upjohn and the case of the bankrupt ‘spendthrift … ne’er-do-well and … waster’
  16. 9. The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women
  17. Index

Contents

  1. Notes on contributors
  2. Introduction
  3. Rosemary Auchmuty and Fiona Cownie
  4. The collection
  5. Themes
  6. Education
  7. Women and home
  8. Doing legal history
  9. Literature review
  10. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Selected bibliography
  13. 1.  Shaking up the Savoy
  14. Sally Wheeler
  15. Changing corporate practices
  16. The battle story
  17. The ‘property’ context
  18. The Savoy takeover manoeuvres
  19. A defence strategy
  20. The response
  21. The aftermath
  22. Notes
  23. Selected bibliography
  24. Reports
  25. Legislation cited
  26. 2.  The Great London Smog of 1952: its consequences and contemporary relevance
  27. Sue Farran
  28. Introduction
  29. The Great London Smog
  30. Early responses
  31. The Beaver Report 1954
  32. The Clean Air Act 1956
  33. Later measures
  34. The position today
  35. Conclusion
  36. Notes
  37. Selected bibliography
  38. 3.  Direct line to Beeching and beyond? The failure of the 1950s railway modernisation plan
  39. Emma Jones
  40. Introduction
  41. The origins of the railways
  42. The railways of the 1950s and the Modernisation Plan
  43. The Beeching Report and the journey to the current day
  44. The Modernisation Plan as a catalyst
  45. Conclusion: a direct line with varied gradients
  46. Notes
  47. Selected bibliography
  48. 4.  Professor Gower, complacent academics and legal education
  49. Fiona Cownie
  50. A young upstart?
  51. Critiquing legal education and training
  52. Law in the universities
  53. Training barristers and solicitors
  54. Academics, the legal professions and judges: shooting from the hip!
  55. Reaction
  56. Why Gower?
  57. Was the criticism justified?
  58. Gower’s concluding remarks
  59. Legal education and training (re)-considered
  60. Conclusion
  61. Notes
  62. Selected bibliography
  63. 5.  A university in (or of) Wales? Vaisey’s folly and St David’s College, Lampeter
  64. R. Gwynedd Parry
  65. Notes
  66. Selected bibliography
  67. 6.  Radio, The Listener and The Times: lessons from the 1950s in the public understanding of law
  68. Simon Lee
  69. Introduction
  70. Law on BBC Radio from the 1920s to the 1950s
  71. Lord Radcliffe’s 1951 Reith Lectures on the problem of power
  72. Hart on immorality and treason
  73. A media, medical and legal interlude: how radio, The Times and The Listener made a difference in the 1980s
  74. Sumption’s 2019 Reith Lectures and the decline of law on the radio?
  75. ‘Acts of Parliament, like other actions, are not good or bad just because they are vigorously advocated or because a lot of well-meaning people energetically desire them’
  76. Notes
  77. Selected bibliography
  78. 7.  Divorce law reform and feminism in the 1950s
  79. Rosemary Auchmuty
  80. The rise of divorce
  81. Matrimonial Causes Bill 1951
  82. Two feminist approaches
  83. Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce
  84. The family home
  85. Maintenance Orders Act 1958
  86. Lessons from the 1950s
  87. Conclusion
  88. Notes
  89. Selected bibliography
  90. Cases
  91. Bills and statutes
  92. Report
  93. Newspaper reports
  94. Other sources
  95. 8.  Mrs Gladys Hutchinson, Lord Upjohn and the case of the bankrupt ‘spendthrift … ne’er-do-well and … waster’
  96. John Tribe
  97. Introduction
  98. The case
  99. A feminist judgment?
  100. A feminist judge?
  101. Afterlife – even less feminist
  102. Conclusion
  103. Notes
  104. 9.  The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women
  105. Caroline Derry
  106. Introduction
  107. Prostitution
  108. Homosexuality
  109. Male homosexuality
  110. Female homosexuality
  111. Conclusion
  112. Notes
  113. Selected bibliography
  114. Index

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