Libraries, Bookshops and Booksellers

               

House of Lords Debate:

13 October 2016

Volume 774

Motion to Take Note

 
  
Moved by

• Lord Bird             

            
  
  

  
  

  That this House takes note of the cultural, civic and educational significance of libraries, bookshops and booksellers in the United Kingdom 
• My Lords, I come here to talk about poverty—the poverty of our streets, the poverty of our libraries and the poverty of our bookshops. If we do not sort out our libraries and bookshops, and if ​we turn our high streets into places that are denuded of bookshops and our libraries are closed down, we will have a real problem in other areas.

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