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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. – George Orwell [ 131 ] Orwell went on to suggest that because both the UK and the Soviet Union were members of the Allied powers at the time, this self-censorship was preventing valid criticism of the Communist regime.
First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica, in it he argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643.. The abolition of the Star Chamber and the severe 1637 Star Chamber Decree, however, did not indicate Parliament's intention to permit freedom of speech and of the press; rather it indicated a desire on the part of Parliament to replace the royal censorship machinery with ...
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to ... The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. ... The Journal Of Ecclesiastical History, 68(4 ...
An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the books's publication.
An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses: Citation: 14 Cha. 2. c. 33 (Ruffhead: 13 & 14 Cha. 2. c. 33) Territorial extent England and Wales: Dates; Royal assent: 19 May 1662: Commencement: 10 June 1662: Expired: 9 June 1664 ...
This "Bishops' Ban" has been documented in the surviving records of the Stationers' Company and can be observed in Edward Arber's transcription. [2] It ordered the censorship of satires and epigrams, histories and dramatic works published without the approval of the Privy Council, and all the works by Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey.
Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.). American Library Association. Pollard and Redgrave (1928), Short-Title Catalogue of Books…1475-1640; Donald Wing (1945–1951), Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700
In the following reigns the Star Chamber exercised a rather effectual censorship; but, in spite of all precautions, such was the demand for books of a polemical nature, that entrepreneurs and subversives printed many abroad and surreptitiously introduced them into England.