Human Rights

Document index

Below is a complete list of all the documents used in all time periods of this exhibition.

1215-1500

Magna Carta, third issue of Henry III, 1225 (DL 10/71)
Petition by Richard Oysel, c.1302 (SC 8/315/E176)
Petition by prisoners in Nottingham gaol to king and council, c.1318 (SC 8/65/3213)
General oyer and terminer roll, commissions of 1381 to deal with the aftermath of the Peasants' Revolt, Cambridgeshire roll of indictments (JUST 1/103, m. 5)

1500-1760

The Poor Law Act, 1601 (C 65/180)
Quakers in Reading Gaol, 1664 (SP 29/100)
Grand Remonstrance, December 1641 (SP 16/486)
A request from army leaders at Putney to Parliament, October 1647 (SP 9/245)

1760-1815

Part of the King's Bench libel papers for the prosecution, trial and punishment of John Wilkes, 1768 (KB 33/5/7)
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man, being an Answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution", Part I, 1792 (TS 24/3/9)
"The Associated Friends of the Constitution and of the People", 3 October 1792 (HO 102/7 folio 46)
Cover page of a pamphlet 'The Minutes of the Proceedings of the General Convention of the Delegates...', 1793 (HO 102/7 folio 218)
Ned Lud's proclamation, 23 December 1811 (HO 42/118)
Letter about the negative reaction of planters to the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 28 April 1807 (CO 101/45/10 folio 111)

1815-1848

Letter from 'The Voice of the Multitude', 11 December 1816 (HO 40/3/2, folio 27)
Letter from anonymous labourers to the gentlemen of Ashill, Norfolk. May 1816 (HO 42/150, folio 130v-131)
The 'Peterloo Massacre' at St Peter's Field Manchester, 1819 (MPI 1/134)
A spike that was used in evidence against the Cato Street Conspirators, convicted for an attempted assassination of the Cabinet, 1820 (TS 11/208)
Poster regarding a number of escaped prisoners arrested for 'combining' as a 'trade union' to raise wages, 1820 (HO 52/1, folio 439)
Letter threatening to burn the property of farmers who were believed to pay low wages or use labour saving machinery, 1830 (HO 52/8, folio 208)
Poster for a Staffordshire coal miners' union public meeting, 27 October 1831 (HO 44/27, folio 203)
A satirical print entitled "The Political Drama", showing the Tolpuddle Martyrs seeking mercy from the King, 1834 (HO 44/27 f.193)
A page from "The Glorious Working of the Whigs" depicting "Grinding the Poor", 1836 (MH 32/60)
A page from 'The Northern Star', a Chartist newspaper, 1838 (TS 11/500)
Poster for a 'Chartist' public meeting at Merthyr Tydvil [Merthyr Tydfil], 20 March 1848 (HO 45/2410 (5) folio 1001)

1848-1914

Leaflet describing the force-feeding of Suffragettes in prison, 1909 (HO 144/1052/187234)
Letter from the Independent Labour Party Kingston (Glasgow) Branch supporting women's suffrage, 26 March 1906 (HO 45/10338/139199)
Poster for a Great Labour Demonstration meeting at Hyde Park, 4 May 1890 (HO 45/9816/B7734)
Poster warning others not the work in the place of striking railway workers in Taff Vale, c. 1900 (RAIL 1057/2854)
A photograph of three schoolboys at the end of the 19th century, 1898 (COPY 1/436, Part 2)

1914-1945

Letter regarding the illegality of picketing during the war, 18 February 1916 (HO 45/10804/308532)
Map detailing police responses to the General Strike in Northumberland, May 1926 (HO 45/24708)
Deputation from the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee to discuss the Enfranchisement of Women, 1927 (T 172/1574)