‘Schoolbook’ declared obscene by court

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February

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Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.

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Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.

On this day in 1971 the proprietor of Stage 1 publishers was found guilty of having in his possession obscene books for publication for gain. Read on...

The book created controversy in numerous countries