Taking Liberties: The Struggle for Britain’s Freedoms and Rights
31 October 2008 – 1 March 2009
FREE EXHIBITION
The Taking Liberties Events programme is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
How far would you go to defend what you believe to be right? The rights of citizens in the UK today didn’t come out of nowhere; they were fought for and cannot be taken for granted.
Find out how it happened and what freedom and rights mean to you. Taking Liberties unites the pivotal documents which made or changed political history for the nation and uncovers where power has resided throughout history and where it lies now. The exhibition provokes you into thinking about the nature of rights and responsibilities in society and places you right in the centre of making critical decisions about the society you would most wish to live in.
Taking Liberties is accompanied by an extensive events programme of panel discussions, debates and lectures focusing on key themes highlighted within the exhibition.
For more information please see the British Library website.