Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain

Moores, Christopher

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“…Like the “nuclear crisis,” a long British nuclear 1980s needs to consider the socio‐economic shifts that occurred in 1960s Britain (e.g., Donnelly, ; Harrison, ; Hoefferle, ; Marwick, ; Moores, ; Thomas, , ). Similarly, it must pay attention to the 1970s as the decade both preceding and shaping many of the social, political, and cultural issues prevailing in Britain and elsewhere between 1979 and 1985 (Hilton, Moores, & Sutcliffe‐Braithwaite, , p. 150; Black, Pemberton, & Thane, ).…”

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Laucht

2018

History Compass

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This article seeks to map out possibilities for conducting a microhistorical study of the socio‐political and cultural roles that uncertainty, as a consequence of a lack of verifiable knowledge, played in political debates over the nuclear threat in Britain in the Second Cold War. Focusing on this politics of the unknown in the period from 1979 to 1985 when Britain witnessed resurging fears of nuclear war, this exploratory essay sets out to make three main interventions: First, it conceptualizes “uncertainty” as a subjective social and cultural construct with fluid meanings that does not necessarily have to hold exclusively negative connotations but might offer opportunities for historical actors. Second, this essay proposes an examination of the politics of the unknown about the anticipated effects of a nuclear war within a wider synchronic economy of non‐nuclear‐weapons‐related concerns such as de‐industrialization or unemployment. Finally, the article introduces the periodization of “Britain's long nuclear 1980s” to allow for a consideration of relevant diachronic aspects of this politics of the unknown, thereby adding further depth to the microhistory. Throughout, this exploratory study draws on historical examples to illustrate its key theoretical points.

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Laucht

2018

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“…Nevertheless, as the NCCL's general secretary Patricia Hewitt recognized, the European Court of Human Rights was "valuable for creating publicity and legitimating the NCCL's efforts to challenge British law and government policy." 40 The architect of Tyrer and Hays' case was Lawrence Grant, legal officer for the NCCL and a veteran of the council's work on Northern Ireland. 41 Tyrer and Hays authorized Grant to act for them, and both sets of parents gave their consent.…”

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Human Rights at the Edges of Late Imperial Britain: The Tyrer Case and Judicial Corporal Punishment from the Isle of Man to Montserrat, 1972–1990

Hilliard,

Duranti

2023

Law hist. rev.

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In Tyrer v. United Kingdom (1978), the European Court of Human of Human Rights ruled that judicial corporal punishment contravened Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which proscribed “degrading treatment or punishment.” The case unfolded at a formative moment in British legal activism, as left-wing civil-liberties lawyers who had been wary of human rights discourse began taking cases to Strasbourg. The case also involved tactical challenges for British politicians and government lawyers. The case originated on the Isle of Man, which is close to the British mainland but constitutionally not part of the United Kingdom: it is a “crown dependency” with its own executive, legislature, and judiciary, and it persisted with judicial corporal punishment long after the practice had been abolished in Great Britain. By convention, the British government respected the island's laws and criminal-justice policies, but Britain was responsible for the island's compliance with international agreements—including the European Convention on Human Rights. How the British government dealt with the Isle of Man during and after the litigation had direct implications for a host of other small territories in what remained of the British empire—in particular, Britain's remaining Caribbean territories. The Tyrer case's protracted endgame was an object lesson in how much Britain's “unwritten” constitution depends on negotiation, manipulation, and avoiding the overt exercise of powers that might crumble upon use.

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“…As well as a novelist, Forster was a prominent member of the newly formed National Council for Civil Liberties. 28 In 1936, he unexpectedly found himself involved in a libel suit when he brought out a collection of essays and occasional pieces under the title Abinger Harvest. 29 One of the earlier items was an amused account of a dispute between two British engineers in Egypt.…”

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Authors and Artemus Jones: Libel Reform in England, 1910–52

Hilliard

2021

Literature & History

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This article argues that the novel was collateral damage in English law’s reaction to mass-market newspapers. A 1910 court decision made the writer’s intention irrelevant in libel cases. As a result, publishers became vulnerable to defamation suits from people unknown to a novelist but who happened to share a name with a fictional character. Drawing on the Society of Authors archive and the records of the Porter Committee on the Law of Defamation, the article reconstructs the campaign to exempt fiction from liability in cases of unintentional defamation.

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Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain

Abstract: 9 The work of various theorists has explored the shifts from social movement to social movement organization. Particularly important have been the contributions of various resource mobilization theorists. For the theoretical discussion of such a shift see M. Zald

Cited by 25 publications

References 254 publications

The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Human Rights at the Edges of Late Imperial Britain: The Tyrer Case and Judicial Corporal Punishment from the Isle of Man to Montserrat, 1972–1990

Authors and Artemus Jones: Libel Reform in England, 1910–52

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