November 30th, 1900, when Oscar Wilde died, has been used as the new card's expiry date. Photograph: British Library
Oscar Wilde said the only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about.
So the playwright surely would have approved of the British Library this week symbolically reissuing his reading pass 130 years after it was confiscated following his imprisonment in a gay sex scandal.
The British Library presented the reading pass in
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