Notes: p. 392-426.

Index: p. 427-434.

The decades since the end of the Second World War have seen a revolution in the moral climate in Britain, with rapidly changing attitudes regarding sexuality, the family and individual behaviour. Makers and Manners describes how successive British governments coped with the social changes wrought by affluence and the decline of religion, as Britain changed from a society where public morality and the criminal law were firmly rooted in Christian doctrine and the sensibilities of late Victorian England, to one where the very existence of a shared public morality was brought into question.This revealing and hugely entertaining book revisits the landmark cases and examines the moral issues to jpose the core questions: how far do governments think they should defend 'traditional' values; how far, in practice, can they legislate for individual morality; and what happens when politics and sex collide?