Contemporary history series.
'Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin' was a children's picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small girl. When a copy was found in a teachers' resource centre in 1986, it casued uproar and was denounced by the education secretary as 'blatant homosexual propaganda'.
Jolyon Jenkins traces how the book, and the policies of a small number of local authorities, led to the now infamous Section 28. Show less