I Wish I Could See My Little Willy…Exhibition of saucy postcards seized as obscene in the 1950s

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I Wish I Could See My Little Willy I Wish I Could See My Little Willy Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury 23rd September – 13th November 2011 I Wish I Could See My Little Willy: Margate’s 1950s campaign against saucy seaside postcards This exhibition celebrates the completion of the JISC-funded Cartoon Archive Rapid Digitisation (CARD) project which has added 32,000 cartoons to the BCA’s online catalogue. The project included the Director of Public Prosecutions’ collection of seaside postcards seized as obscene by police in the 1950s, and this exhibition features those seized in Margate. The exhibition is free, and runs until 13 November 2011.