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In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu Case, as it came to be known. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months for homosexual offences, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence. In this book, first published in 1955, Peter Wildeblood tells the story of his childhood and schooldays, his war service and university days, his life as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of homosexuals in Britain only a generation ago. Probably the first book on homosexuality to reach a mass audience in Britain, Against the Law had a direct influence on the Wolfenden Committee, whose Report in 1957 recommended that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private be legalised, proposals which were finally passed into law in 1967.
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Born in Italy, Peter Wildeblood came to London at the age of three in 1926. He won a scholarship to Oxford but left to serve in the RAF 1941-46, returning to Oxford after the war. In 1954 he was a well-known London journalist when he was jailed for homosexuality. After serving his prison sentence, he wrote a number of novels, plays and television scripts.
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Against the Law: The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
ISBN 10 : 0297643827
ISBN 13 : 9780297643821
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Hardcover, ix + 189 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket. -- This work is a foundational memoir of gay life in mid-20th century Britain and a landmark text in the campaign for legal reform. It is the author's personal account of his arrest, trial, and imprisonment for homosexual offenses as part of the infamous Montagu affair of 1954. As one of the first men in Britain to publicly declare his homosexuality after being convicted, Wildeblood provides a searing chronicle of the public scandal, the courtroom ordeal, and the realities of prison life under the laws of the era. Published shortly after his release, the book was a direct and powerful testimony that profoundly influenced public opinion and was instrumental in the establishment of the Wolfenden Committee, which ultimately recommended decriminalization. N° de réf. du vendeur 011761
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