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| LIBERTY TIMELINELiberty was founded in 1934 as the National Council for Civil Liberties, and has campaigned to protect and promote our fundamental rights and freedoms for over 75 years.
In each section below you can find out more about our major campaigns in each decade, from mental health reform to privacy protection and peaceful protest.  | In 1934, after witnessing brutal police attacks on peaceful protestors, Ronald Kidd founded the Council of Civil Liberties to defend ‘the whole spirit of British freedom’.
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 | As soon as the Council was formed they began campaigning against film censorship and police bias. |
 | During the 1940s Liberty took on a major miscarriage of justice legal case, and in the following decade fought a successful campaign for mental health reform. |
 | As well as more work defending the right to protest, the 1960s and 1970s saw an increase in the Liberty's work on equality as they campaigned for women's rights and against race discrimination. |
 | After campaigning against the detention without charge of Iraqi nationals during the Gulf War, the 1990s ended with the passing of the Human Rights Act. |
 | Liberty used the Human Rights Act in a number of landmark cases during the 2000s, combating some of the worst excesses of the 'War on Terror'. |
 | For more than 75 years we have been the conscience of the nation, and we are needed now as we were then to keep watch over our rights and freedoms.
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Our archives are part of Hull University's special collection of pressure group archives. | |
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