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	[[File:Rid England of this Plague.jpg\|thumb\|Front cover of the book]]'''''Rid England of this Plague''''' is a novel by [[Rex Batten]], based on his own experiences as a gay man in rural Dorset in the 1950s. It was published in 2005 by [[Paradise Press]]. It takes its title from the Home Secretary of the time, [[Sir David Maxwell Fyfe]], who had vowed to rid England of the "Plague of Homosexuality".		[[File:Rid England of this Plague.jpg\|thumb\|Front cover of the book]]'''''Rid England of this Plague''''' is a novel by [[Rex Batten]], based on his own experiences as a gay man in rural Dorset in the 1950s. It was published in 2005 by [[Paradise Press]]. It takes its title from the Home Secretary of the time, [[Sir David Maxwell Fyfe]], who had vowed to rid England of the "Plague of Homosexuality".

			An extract from the book was enacted as part of a play reading by [[Croydon Area Gay Society]] at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, for LGBT History Month, February 2007.<ref>[http://www.cags.org.uk/press-releases/press-release-feb07.htm "Police purge homosexuals"] (CAGS press release).</ref>

			==External links==
			*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3QSU2XS2DP2SJ/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1904585086&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books "A flawed account of gay life in the oppressive 1950's"], Amazon
			*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1R5GGRGBRWU5V/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1904585086&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books "Lessons still to be heeded"], Amazon
			*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1RAYTSN53NVJ5/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1904585086&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books "A mirror in time"], Amazon
			*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9142350-rid-england-of-this-plague revew] by Joseph Oliver, ''Goodreads''.
	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
	*Rex Batten, ''Rid England of this Plague'' (London: Paradise Press, 2005). 320 pages. ISBN 978-1-904585-08-6		*Rex Batten, ''Rid England of this Plague'' (London: Paradise Press, 2005). 320 pages. ISBN 978-1-904585-08-6

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[[File:Rid England of this Plague.jpg|thumb|Front cover of the book]]'''''Rid England of this Plague''''' is a novel by [[Rex Batten]], based on his own experiences as a gay man in rural Dorset in the 1950s. It was published in 2005 by [[Paradise Press]]. It takes its title from the Home Secretary of the time, [[Sir David Maxwell Fyfe]], who had vowed to rid England of the "Plague of Homosexuality".

==Bibliography==
*Rex Batten, ''Rid England of this Plague'' (London: Paradise Press, 2005). 320 pages. ISBN 978-1-904585-08-6

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