Taking Stock of Taking Liberties
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Taking Stock of Taking Liberties by Linda Colley
Eminent historian Linda Colley discusses some of the extraordinary and moving documents and images on display in the Taking Liberties exhibition, all of which illuminate struggles over rights and liberties in these islands, from Magna Carta to the present. The author traces the evolution of the powerful cult of superior British freedoms, and shows how in the past this was often at odds with actual access to the vote, the condition of women, disparities of experience between different parts of the British Isles, and modes of rule in the British Empire. Taking Stock of Taking Liberties also poses and investigates a major question. Why, having generated so many early influential constitutional statements, and exported Bills of Right and constitutions to many parts of its onetime empire, has the UK entered the 21st century without a constitution of its own, or its own modern Bill of Rights?
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, and Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications include In Defiance of Oligarchy: the Tory Party 1714-60(1982);Britons:Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992) and The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712350419 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712350411 |
| Title | Taking Stock of Taking Liberties |
| Author | Linda Colley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | British Library Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
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