Access all areas?

Typical. No sooner do I leave Oxford than the Bodleian Libraries put on an exhibition of all their muckiest books, to which access was until fairly recently still restricted.

D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover features, of course, and the form of a signed first edition, while the prospect of The Pop-Up Karma Sutra is an intriguing one. Possibly not a book you want to be caught perusing in public, mind.

In all seriousness, though, the exhibition of works once deemed obscene is - as a spokeswoman has commented - a "valuable sociological snapshot, charting how perceptions of sexuality and appropriateness have changed over time". However, it does rather beg the question of whether there are some publications in their collections that are still considered unsuitable for public exposure.