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40 key icons of liberty and progress, from Magna Carta to the Declaration of Human Rights, listed by category. Use the + and - buttons to collapse or expand lists

Laws of Forests, 1225
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Rule of law   timeline
1215 Magna Carta
1225 Laws of Forests
1250 Laws of Hywel Dda
1679 Habeas Corpus Act
1318 Ayr Manuscript
1681 Coke's Institutes of the Lawes
1817 The Black Dwarf
Right to vote   timeline
1832 Reform Act
1838 People's Charter
1913 Olive Wharry's prison scrapbook
1820 Peterloo Report
1836 Minute book of the London Working Men's Association
Four nations   timeline
1250 Matthew Paris's map of Britain
1261 Chronicle of Mann
1385 Declaration of Arbroath
1406 Pennal Letter
1706 Articles of Union
1893 Gladstone's notes on Home Rule
1998 Belfast Agreement
Freedom of speech   timeline
1611 King James Bible
1644 Areopagitica
1656 Petition to Cromwell by Menasseh ben Israel
1766 Proceedings of the House of Commons
1780 Gordon Riots handbill
1971 Oz trial
Parliament and people   timeline
1647 Putney Debates
1649 Charles I death warrant
1649 Agreement of the People
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan
1689 Bill of Rights
Human rights   timeline
1690 Locke's Treatises
1787 Minutes of the Committee for Abolition of Slavery
1791 Paine's Rights of Man
1792 Wollstonecraft's Rights of Women
1794 William Blake's notebook
1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights
1957 Wolfenden Report
Freedom from want   timeline
1891 Booth's poverty map of London
1911 National Insurance stamps
1942 Beveridge Report

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