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40 key icons of liberty and progress, from Magna Carta 1215 to the Belfast Agreement 1998, listed by year. Use the + and - buttons to collapse or expand lists

Laws of Forests, 1225
13th century
1215 Magna Carta
1225 Laws of Forests
1250 Laws of Hywel Dda
1250 Matthew Paris's map of Britain
1261 Chronicle of Mann
14th century
1318 Ayr Manuscript
1385 Declaration of Arbroath
15th century
1406 Pennal Letter
17th century
1611 King James Bible
1644 Areopagitica
1647 Putney Debates
1649 Agreement of the People
1649 Charles I death warrant
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan
1656 Petition to Cromwell by Menasseh ben Israel
1679 Habeas Corpus Act
1681 Coke's Institutes of the Lawes
1689 Bill of Rights
1690 Locke's Treatises
18th century
1706 Articles of Union
1766 Proceedings of the House of Commons
1780 Gordon Riots handbill
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
19th century
1817 The Black Dwarf
1820 Peterloo Report
1832 Reform Act
1836 Minute book of the London Working Men's Association
1838 People's Charter
1891 Booth's poverty map of London
1893 Gladstone's notes on Home Rule
20th century
1911 National Insurance stamps
1913 Olive Wharry's prison scrapbook
1942 Beveridge Report
1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights
1957 Wolfenden Report
1971 Oz trial
1998 Belfast Agreement

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