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Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Part of chapter 3 had material in common with Mort’s RAE 2008 output ‘Scandalous Events: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change in Post-Second World War London’, Representations 93 (2006): 106-37. It was expanded and rewritten to include new primary sources and further analysis of the media, Kensington’s social geography and criminal history. Chapter 6 had material in common with RAE 2008 output ‘Striptease: the Erotic Female Body and Live Sexual Entertainment in Mid-Twentieth-Century London’, Social History 32, 1 (2007): 27-53. It was expanded to include new primary sources and further analysis of police regulation, histories of erotic entertainment and elite consumption.

We propose this monograph for double-weighting on the grounds that (a) the central thesis on the genesis of permissive morality and its relationship to the metropolitan environment is particularly complex, crossing disciplinary boundaries and requiring the application of interdisciplinary methods; (b) the empirical material collected and analysed is considerable as demonstrated in the footnotes; (c) the primary sources are particularly extensive and detailed, ranging from official records, local archives, papers of the entertainment and media industries, and oral histories, and (d) the critical insight generated by using these sources involved a particularly lengthy period of data collection.