How to Read a Censored Book

Description

In the early 1980s, officers from HM Customs raided Gay's the Word bookshop, Bloomsbury, seizing over 140 titles and charging staff with conspiracy to import so-called 'indecent or obscene' material. Using the Haud Nominandum collection at Senate House Library -- the personal library of Gay's the Word director Jonathan Cutbill -- this workshop invites participants to take a closer look at a selection of these seized books and to consider some of the many different ways they might be read today.

Participants will be invited to take part in a handling session using copies of the books seized in the raids, followed by a participatory exercise on using oral history as a method to gather histories of reading. The workshop will close with a gentle introduction to reading these texts with digital tools.

Date

This event last took place on: Sat 11th Nov 2023

Location

Senate House Library
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU

Prices

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