
Jim Haynes opened the Paperback bookshop in Charles Street in 1959, where the University of Edinburgh's new informatics centre now stands.
It was "sometime around 1960" that he sold a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover to a woman to proceeded to set it on fire. Penguin Books was put on trial in 1960 for publishing the book, in what became a test-case for freedom of speech.
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