This artwork took the form of an intervention into an archive, culminating in the exhibition Dispatches from the Culture War: Homosexuality, Blasphemy, and Obscenity in British Media at the University of Essex's Albert Sloman Library.

 

The exhibition utilises items from the archive of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association to explore pivotal moments in media discourse in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time of seismic change in the British media landscape. Featuring notable moments where 'culture wars' coalesced around a piece of media, this exhibition demonstrated how the questions raised at the time around censorship, free speech, and human rights are still relevant today.

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This project was made possible thanks to support from the University of Essex's Special Collections.