1. Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain 1918–1960 (Oxford, 2006)
2. Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher, Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918–1963 (Cambridge, 2010).
3. Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality, New Edn. (Chicago, 2007).
4. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (London, 2009, first published 1957), pp. 57–85. See Chapter 3 on working-class culture.
5. Justin Bengry, ‘Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Law Reform in Britain’ in Matt Cook and Heike Bauer (eds.), Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Post-War Years (Basingstoke, 2012), p. 170.