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Taking Liberties star item - Paine's Rights of Man
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:08:26
Publish Date: 2008-10-31 11:00:00
Description: Curator Matthew Shaw discusses Thomas Paine's radical 1791 text The Rights of Man: its political background in the English and French Revolutions, the response to Burke, its remarkable reception at the time, and its pioneering vision of social welfare and justice that was many decades ahead of its time
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