| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/27/44 |
| Title | 'Social Questions' |
| Date | 1919 - 1960 |
| Description | Correspondence between the NUWT, the London Anti-Vice Council, the Public Morality Council, the Boycott Movement (boycott of South African Goods), the Howard League for Penal Reform, the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene and regarding various social, moral and ethical issues.
The correspondence covers:
Request for NUWT support from the Boycott Movement
Information on the Boycott Movement and the racism and segregation in South Africa
Invitation to appoint a representative on the London Anti-Vice Council
Information on a conference on 'Children and Film's' organised by the Public Morality Council
Public Morality Council calls for support to ban 'objectionable' books
Report by Lilian Lenton (NUWT Financial Secretary) of a conference called by the Howard League for Penal Reform to discuss the Criminal Justice Bill
The death penalty/capital punishment
Injustices in the penal system
Constitution for the National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
British national ballot
Protests against betting and gambling
Protests against regulation 33B which allows for compulsory examination for VD
Information sent to the NUWT from the Bachelor Motherhood League and Plural Mating Society
Programme for the second International Congress of Criminology
Education about leprosy
Publications and reports including:
'The Street offences Bill - a case for its amendment', Church of England Moral Welfare Council
'Boycott News', issue no. 1 'A direct Appeal from South Africa'
'Countries which have abolished the death penalty - what their experience has been', Roy Calvert, National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 1928
'Eight reasons why capital punishment should be abolished', National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
'Programme of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies', 1919
Report of the Joint Committee on Sexual Offences, 1935
London Council of Social Service Annual Report 1945 - 1946
'Think Big! On it depends our hope for the future', report from the Thirty Seven Club
'Race relations and the schools - a survey of the colour question in some aspects of English education with a number of proposals and suggestions', the League of Coloured Peoples, 1944/1945
Annual reports of Cecil Houses Inc. (Women's public lodging houses, and residential clubs, fund), from: 1950 - 1951; 1956 - 1957; 1957 - 1958
Press cuttings regarding:
The death penalty
Reports of crimes and miscarriages of justice
Calls for something to be done about reportedly bad manners amongst children
Prostitution and brothels
Calls for equality in apportioning blame for 'falling moral standards' rather than putting all the blame onto women
Sex trafficking in women
Calls for increase in sex education in order to prevent increases in VD
Recognition of African trade unions in Southern Rhodesia
Cruelty to children
Illegitimacy |
| Extent | 3 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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