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Week Two Omnibus - From the Abolition of Atlantic Slavery to the Freedom of Information Act
A new series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.
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10. Freedom of Information
How the British public won the right to know more of the truth about the conduct of power.
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9 Gay Rights
The decriminalisation of homosexuality, and the struggle for equal rights that followed.
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8. The Married Women's Property Act
The struggle to win married women's right to own property and be counted as full citizens.
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7 Catholic Emancipation
The long struggle to free pre-Victorian Catholics from laws barring them from public life.
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6. The Abolition of Atlantic Chattel Slavery
The Jamaican slave rebellion that contributed to Britain's abolition of slavery.
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Week One Omnibus - From Magna Carta to Victorian Trade Unions
A new series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.
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5 Freedom of Association
The struggle of Victorian working men to form trade unions with real negotiating power.
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4 Freedom of the Press
How a libertine called John Wilkes fought for the right to criticize the powerful, and won
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3 Freedom of Religion
How post-Civil War England produced a radical idea - Toleration - and its role today.
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2 Freedom from Unlawful Detention
The story of the struggle for 'habeas corpus' in an England on the verge of Civil War.
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1 Freedom from Absolute Monarchy
Series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.
