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39: Dare you brave this shopping mall?
Lateral with Tom Scott
The British Records Association's Counter Protest
In 1940, the British government's Ministry of Supply introduced a compulsory public initiative that drew a counter protest from the British Records Association. What was the issue? Is it something to do with some sort of records of something where they think if the other side gets hold of them, we're giving over our state secrets? And one more time for you. In 1940, that that's in the war, right? Second World War, yeah. Oh great. It's got to be music because if it was National Archives, everything then was in government. They would have just sent an edict over and archived. Everything was being locked up safely for like being unboxing 50 years time.
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