TY - BOOK ID - 85297488 TI - Civil liberties and human rights in Twentieth-century Britain PY - 2017 SN - 1108124224 1108124836 1108124933 1316105083 1108125034 1108125530 1108125131 1107088615 1107459702 9781108125536 9781316105085 9781108125130 9781107459700 9781107088610 9781107459700 PB - Cambridge DB - UniCat KW - Civil rights KW - Human rights KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Civil liberties KW - Constitutional rights KW - Fundamental rights KW - Rights, Civil KW - Constitutional law KW - Political persecution KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Liberty (Great Britain) KW - Great Britain. KW - National Council for Civil Liberties (Great Britain) KW - Great Britain KW - England KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297488 AB - The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the NCCL was to ensure that civil liberties were a central component of political discourse. Chris Moores's new study shows how the NCCL - now Liberty - had to balance the interests of extremist allies with the desire to become a respectable force campaigning for human rights and civil liberties. From new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s to the formation of the Human Rights Act in 1998, this study traces the NCCL's development over the last eighty years. It enables us to observe shifts and continuities in forms of political mobilisation throughout the twentieth century, changes in discourse about extensions and retreats of freedoms, as well as the theoretical conceptualisation and practical protection of rights and liberties. ER -