National Council for Civil Liberties

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Employer Pat Arrowsmith
Also in 1971, PA worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties (now called Liberty) as a caseworker.
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Adrian (1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge ...
Literary responses Ali Smith
The chair of the judges, Shami Chakrabarti (an Independent Labour Party politician, then a director of Liberty , formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties) described AS 's work as a tender, brilliant, and witty...
politics Virginia Woolf
But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Her thinking manifested itself in various ways. She was involved to varying degrees with a number of leftist associations: the Labour Party
politics Evelyn Sharp
Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...
politics Mary Butts
MB was working for the National Council Against Conscription (a forerunner of the National Council for Civil Liberties ).
qtd. in
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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politics E. M. Forster
After 1924, EMF turned from writing novels to social and political causes, in particular the issue of freedom of expression. In 1928 he campaigned against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness...

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Earlier 1916: A British organization was founded called...

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Earlier 1916

A British organization was founded called the National Council Against Conscription . This lasted only until 1919, but it was the prototype for the better-known National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty), founded in 1934.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...

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24 February 1934

The National Council for Civil Liberties was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd , who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...

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24 February 1934

The National Council for Civil Liberties was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd , who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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1934: The Incitement to Disaffection Act, designed...

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1934

The Incitement to Disaffection Act, designed to facilitate the suppression of grassroots political dissent, was passed despite the efforts of the newly-formed National Council for Civil Liberties .
Porter, Bernard. “How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism”. London Review of Books, 1 June 2000, pp. 27-8.
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Late 1936: The Public Order Act passed through parliament,...

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Late 1936

The Public Order Act passed through parliament, aimed at outbreaks of violence following demonstrations and counter-demonstrations connected with Oswald Mosley 's British Union of Fascists .
Liberty: A Brief History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807173131/http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/about/1-history/index.shtml.
Porter, Bernard. “How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism”. London Review of Books, 1 June 2000, pp. 27-8.
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21 January 1941-26 August 1942: The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British...

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21 January 1941-26 August 1942

The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party , was suppressed under Defence Regulations.
Rust, William. Daily Worker Reborn. Daily Worker, 1943.
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Rust, William. Lift the Ban on the Daily Worker. Daily Worker League, 1942.
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