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The Battles That Won Our Freedoms Episodes

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    Week Two Omnibus - From the Abolition of Atlantic Slavery to the Freedom of Information Act

    A new series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.

  2. 10. Freedom of Information

    How the British public won the right to know more of the truth about the conduct of power.

  3. 9 Gay Rights

    The decriminalisation of homosexuality, and the struggle for equal rights that followed.

  4. 8. The Married Women's Property Act

    The struggle to win married women's right to own property and be counted as full citizens.

  5. 7 Catholic Emancipation

    The long struggle to free pre-Victorian Catholics from laws barring them from public life.

  6. 6. The Abolition of Atlantic Chattel Slavery

    The Jamaican slave rebellion that contributed to Britain's abolition of slavery.

  7. Week One Omnibus - From Magna Carta to Victorian Trade Unions

    A new series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.

  8. 5 Freedom of Association

    The struggle of Victorian working men to form trade unions with real negotiating power.

  9. 4 Freedom of the Press

    How a libertine called John Wilkes fought for the right to criticize the powerful, and won

  10. 3 Freedom of Religion

    How post-Civil War England produced a radical idea - Toleration - and its role today.

  11. 2 Freedom from Unlawful Detention

    The story of the struggle for 'habeas corpus' in an England on the verge of Civil War.

  12. 1 Freedom from Absolute Monarchy

    Series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.