Renewal of the BBC Royal Charter in December, 2016

Submitted by:  NCW Darlington & District Branch NCW urges HM Government to take steps to ensure that the BBC: – remains in public ownership to continue to be independent of vested commercial interests and the Government of the day, continues to be the...

Restrictions of obscene publications, 1961

The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, welcomes the fact that successful prosecutions have been brought under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, but deplores the increasing pornographic emphasis of certain cheap illustrated magazines which are exposed...

Sensationalism in certain sections of the press, 1954

The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, while appreciating the integrity of the greater part of the Press of this country, is deeply concerned by the unwholesome exploitation of sex and detailed reports of suicides and other horrors by certain...

Harmful Comics, 1952

The National Council of Women of Great Britain wishes to emphasise again its belief that some of the American type “Comics” for adolescents which are at present finding their way into this country, and certain sadistic “Crime Comics” now...