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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

Cover: Law and Justice in the 1950s, Case Studies from a Neglected Decade by Fiona Cownie, and Rosemary Auchmuty

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