'It's a brilliant manuscript, forensic and fascinating, rich with detail and countless examples of the hilarious and bewildering attitudes of the later censorship, but with also Nicholson's characteristic fair-mindedness which treats the Lord Chamberlain and his comptrollers with respect for the difficult job they had to do and the nuanced way in which they did it. It's a great conclusion to a vital series.' (Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London) 'The Third volume of Steve Nicholson's The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 (Exeter University Press) was the book I most eagerly awaited in 2011 . based like its predecessors on heroic research in the archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Department.' 'Nicholson is a scholar who writes with lucidity, wit, humane intelligence and grace of mind. There is no jargon in his pages, but much glorious hilarity. Nicholson's series ought to be mandatory reading for historians and biographers interesting in twentieth-century England.' 'The quotations in this book are a gold mine for other writers.

' (Times Literary Supplement, 5670, December 2011).