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1603Sir Walter Raleigh's notes
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1604First English dictionary
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1605Letter about Guy Fawkes
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1605The Gunpowder Plot
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1605The head of Guy Fawkes
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1608Shakespeare's King Lear
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1611King James Bible
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1616The Globe Theatre
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1617Surgeons' tools
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1623Chinese globe
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1623Shakespeare's First Folio
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1636Lotus Sutra
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1643English Civil War scenes
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1647Witch hunting
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1649Execution of Charles I
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1649Agreement of the People
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1649Charles I's executioner
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1650Early A - Z of London
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1650Advert for a quack doctor
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1660Oliver Cromwell as the Devil
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1665A cure for the Plague
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1665Robert Hooke, Micrographia
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1666Great Fire of London map
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1666Great Fire of London
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1666Wren's plans after the fire
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1669Theatrical figures
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1674Dictionary of criminal slang
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1674Games and pastimes
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1679Habeas Corpus Act
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1679Map of the moon
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1684A London Rhinoceros
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1685Henry Purcell
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1690Locke's Two Treatises
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1693East India Company
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1693Account of a shipwreck
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1698Map of South America
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Intro
The writings of philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) have had a profound effect on Western ideas of political and human rights. Locke proposed that all human beings are created free and equal, that all individuals have a right to life, liberty and property, that there should be religious tolerance and that a government should be based on popular consent.
Through the mid-1600s, when England had been rocked by civil war, the King was executed, a republic established and monarchy restored, many people had to think hard about the true nature of an individual’s rights and freedoms. But the Age of Enlightenment had yet to dawn, and those who promoted their ideas about rights and freedoms would find their lives in danger. It was not until after the Revolution of 1688 and the Bill of Rights that thinkers felt sufficiently free to express their views without fear of persecution.
Shelfmark: C.107.e.89, tp.
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