In March 1973, before taking his new play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, around the village halls of the Highlands, John McGrath accepted a last-minute invitation to perform it at a ...

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Users of the British Library received an email on 21 October with the subject line ‘Transforming your Library’.

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