- How many times have you heard
Magna Carta mentioned in the news of late?
- How far would you go to defend
what you believed to be right?
- Which political rights do you
enjoy in Britain today and which would you least like to lose?
- What struggles have taken
place over time to create the constitution we live in today?
- Who were the British heroes and
heroines who campaigned for political causes often at great risk
to themselves?
- Imagine a world where you
were stripped of all rights.
The British Library’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Taking
Liberties: the struggle for Britain’s freedoms and rights’
uncovers the roots of British democracy over a period of more than
900 years.
Coming soon...
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