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Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited

13 Monday Nov 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Fashion and Beauty, Film, History, Music, Periodicals, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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A Kind of Loving, Amanda Coe, Barry Fantoni, Calder Waldon, Caroline Coon, Catherine Edmunds, Cathy Lomax, Christine Keeler, Christine Noonan, Dameon Priestly, David Kynaston, De Montfort University, Divergência Socialista, Eugene Ivanov, Fanny Hill, Fionn Wilson, Geoffrey Robertson, Gerald Scarfe, Graphic Novel, Harold Macmillan, If ...., Introducing Mandy, John Profumo, Keeler, Leicester, Leicester Gallery, Lewis Morley, Libby Crowley, Mandy Rice-Davies, Marguerite Horner, Mariella Novotny, Melanie Williams, Michael Bronze, Murray's Cabaret Club, Natalie d'Arbeloff, Peggy Davies Ceramics, Private Eye, Profumo Affair, Richard Farmer, Sadie Hennessy, Sadie Lee, Sal Jones, Scandal, Scandal '63 Revisited, Senseless Things, Seymour Platt, Stella Vine, Stephen Ward, Stephen Ward: The Musical, Steve Chibnall, Sue Lloyd, Terence Donovan, That Affair, That Was the Week That Was, The Christine Keeler Colouring Book, The Keeler Affair, The Mandy Report, The Trial Of Christine Keeler, Timothy Birdsall, Town Magazine, Tuli Kupferberg, Une Romance Anglaise, Vanessa Holburn, Vice Girls Ltd., Wendy Nelson, Wes Streeting, Yours Retro

“In Britain at the start of the 1960s, Victorian values are still mainstream. There is a rich ruling class who are better than everybody else, women are mostly thought of as the property of the men around them and if you are Black, discrimination, IS the culture. I believe the Profumo scandal shone a light on all of that poison and was another step on the road that we are still very much on, to a more equal society. So, I think in some ways the Profumo scandal was a good thing. But for my mother, I am sure she would say, ‘What a price I had to pay!’”– Seymour Platt, ‘My Mother, Christine Keeler’ Continue reading →

Dear Christine: A Tribute in Art, Poetry and Prose

13 Wednesday May 2020

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Profumo Affair

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Alan Olley, Amanda Coe, Arthouse1, Barbara Howey, Bo Gorzelak Pedersen, Caroline Coon, Catherine Edmunds, Cathy Lomax, Charlotte Innes, Charlotte Metcalf, Christine Keeler, Claudia Clare, David Astbury, Dear Christine, Elysium Gallery, Fine Cell Work, Fionn Wilson, Guinevere Clark, Helen Billinghurst, J.V. Martin, James Birch, Jeni Williams, Jo Mazelis, JoWonder, Julia Maddison, Julie Burchill, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Kathryn Gray, Lewis Morley, London, Lucy Cox, Mandy Rice-Davies, Marguerite Horner, Mari Ellis Dunning, Murray's Cabaret Club, Natalie d'Arbeloff, Newcastle, Pal Hansen, Patrick Jones, Pauline Boty, Poetry, Profumo Affair, Rebecca Fairman, Roxana Halls, Sadie Hennessy, Sadie Lee, Sal Jones, Sarah Caulfield, Sarah Shaw, Seymour Platt, Shani Rhys James, Soho, Sonja Benskin Mesher, Stella Vine, Swansea, Tanya Gold, The Keeler Affair, Vane Gallery, Wales, Wendy Nelson

Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler first took root in 2014, when Fionn Wilson painted a set of four portraits in black and white, based on 1960s photographs by Lewis Morley and others. Like myself, Fionn first discovered Keeler in retrospect. She asked other women artists, some of whom had lived through the Profumo Affair to contribute works about Christine. For many of us, her story represents a rite of passage. As Fionn notes in her foreword to the exhibition catalogue, the scandal “let the genie of sex out of the bottle” and “dealt a death blow” to class deference. At the same time, it unleashed a brave new world of tabloid exposure. “Never had the press been so bold and it has never looked back.” Continue reading →

‘Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me’

23 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by marina72 in History, Politics, Profumo Affair, Television

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“The story that defined a decade of great change in Great Britain was my big break in Fleet Street, and I covered and loved every moment of it, from the ridiculous to the tragic …”

Tom Mangold, described in The Times as ‘the doyen of broadcast reporters’, began his career as an investigative journalist on Fleet Street before moving into television as a foreign correspondent, and has since made over 100 documentaries, including many for the BBC’s Panorama. But like many others drawn into the Profumo Affair, Mangold has never quite moved on from the 1963 scandal which still leaves more questions than answers.

Keeler, Profumo, Ward & Me is the third documentary on the subject in which Mangold has played a prominent role within the last decade: BBC Radio Four’s Profumo Confidential, which he presented, and ITV’s Sex, Lies and a Very British Scapegoat both aired in 2013, fifty years after the event. And as BBC1’s six-part drama, The Trial of Christine Keeler, sets the rumour mill in motion again, its final episode was followed immediately by Mangold’s latest account on BBC2. Continue reading →

Christine Keeler’s ‘Secrets and Lies’ Redux

24 Tuesday Sep 2019

Posted by marina72 in Books, History, Non-Fiction, Profumo Affair

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Christine Keeler, Dennis F. Evans, Desmond Banks, Douglas Thompson, Eugene Ivanov, Gisela Winegard, Jeremy Hutchinson, John Profumo, Lucky Gordon, Mandy Rice-Davies, Profumo Affair, Secrets and Lies, Seymour Platt, Thomas Grant

“I never met Christine Keeler,” Seymour Platt writes in his foreword to the latest edition of her memoirs, Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler. (This is a paperback reissue of her 2012 book, itself an update to her 2001 autobiography, The Truth At Last.) His mother changed her name, he explains, “to get away from being Christine Keeler. In our house Christine Keeler was talked about in the third person – who would want to be associated with Christine Keeler? Christine Keeler would get the blame for a lot of things that happened. Friends, family, relationships that soured, all that would be Christine Keeler’s fault.” Continue reading →

‘Wicked Baby’ Back in Print

17 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by marina72 in Books, Profumo Affair, Updates, Wicked Baby

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I’m happy to announce that Wicked Baby, my novella based on the events of the Profumo Affair, is now back in print. This edition includes an afterword and six further articles about the scandal’s lasting impact, which first appeared in the Kindle version. You can order it now for £5.24 from Amazon UK, or $7.45 in the US.

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