Main Event
Education
, , United Kingdom
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-09
events@lse.ac.uk
Event Insights : Gain more knowledge on Reading wars: the story (so far) of Western literacy and the future of free speech - for publication and research. Herzog studies the history and politics of anxieties about readers and reading, spanning both the United States and Britain, from the 1500s right up to contemporary battles over banning library books and freedom of speech. The author reconstructs arguments insisting that ordinary men and women could not be trusted to read what they liked – indeed, that some of them ought not read at all. And he charts struggles to promote literacy.
