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Censorship: The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht and the National Library of Scotland.

Read the FOI material from National Library which shows how the National Librarian reached her decision to exclude The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht from the Library’s centenary exhibition Dear Library. The full story is here

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