A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely

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Examines the ways in which the Supreme Court has dealt with obscenity. Chronological chapters featuring a specific aspect of the constitutional problem and the