Taking Liberties at the British Library
“In some countries you wouldn’t have the right to visit this exhibition about your rights.”
The handout for the British Library’s exhibition makes its point emphatically. You might look at some of the documents displayed here and think they are just dry, dusty old bits of paper – but the history of British freedom is a long one, and without that history, we wouldn’t have the freedom to live our lives as we do.
When I was at school I got the benefit of what could broadly be called the Whig view of history – Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution of …read more
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