Oscar Wilde's library card reissued 130 years after being revoked over gay conviction

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British Library Board The date of Oscar Wilde's death, 30 November 1900, has been used as the new card's expiry date

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following h

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