Comments on: Taking Liberties at the British Library http://www.xerode.net/blog/2009/01/31/taking-liberties-at-the-british-library/ The blog and portfolio of Paul Bennett, a 26 year old Flash developer and occasional photographer Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Angellaa http://www.xerode.net/blog/2009/01/31/taking-liberties-at-the-british-library/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Angellaa Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:39:12 +0000 http://www.xerode.net/blog/?p=379#comment-847 Hmm, very cognitive post. Is this theme good enough for the Digg? Hmm, very cognitive post.

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]]> By: Rob Ainsley http://www.xerode.net/blog/2009/01/31/taking-liberties-at-the-british-library/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Rob Ainsley Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:29:14 +0000 http://www.xerode.net/blog/?p=379#comment-561 Hi. Sorry you didn't enjoy the exhibition. We're a library, so most of the documents we can display do tend to come from the past, rather than the future. We'll work on it, though! We think the ID-cards comparison is indeed pretty obvious, which is why we didn't think it needed further emphasis. And we honestly don't know what you mean by cheerleading or being self-congratulatory. If you check out some of the podcasts we've made of events staged to accompany the exhibition, you'll hear loss of civil liberties coming up again and again. For instance, Shami Chakrabarti talks at length (90 minutes, in fact) about it. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/reviews/081031shamichakrabarti.html In a talk on one of the items in the exhibition related to the slave trade, you'll find a very critical assessment of the anti-slave trade movement, pointing out many reasons not to feel too self-congratulatory. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/staritems/66minutesofcommitteeabolitionaudio.html In the latest podcast - which should be going up soon, maybe even today - Prof Linda Colley and AC Grayling rail against the present erosion of liberties too. Thanks for your interest in British Library exhibitions. You might be interested to know that a new free exhibition has just started, 'Sound and Fury'. You can listen to a collection of landmark speeches from Gladstone to Churchill to Tommy Woodrooffe to Hitler to Martin Luther King to Brian Johnston. Hi.

Sorry you didn't enjoy the exhibition.

We're a library, so most of the documents we can display do tend to come from the past, rather than the future. We'll work on it, though!

We think the ID-cards comparison is indeed pretty obvious, which is why we didn't think it needed further emphasis.

And we honestly don't know what you mean by cheerleading or being self-congratulatory. If you check out some of the podcasts we've made of events staged to accompany the exhibition, you'll hear loss of civil liberties coming up again and again.

For instance, Shami Chakrabarti talks at length (90 minutes, in fact) about it.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery.....barti.html

In a talk on one of the items in the exhibition related to the slave trade, you'll find a very critical assessment of the anti-slave trade movement, pointing out many reasons not to feel too self-congratulatory.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery.....audio.html

In the latest podcast - which should be going up soon, maybe even today - Prof Linda Colley and AC Grayling rail against the present erosion of liberties too.

Thanks for your interest in British Library exhibitions.

You might be interested to know that a new free exhibition has just started, 'Sound and Fury'. You can listen to a collection of landmark speeches from Gladstone to Churchill to Tommy Woodrooffe to Hitler to Martin Luther King to Brian Johnston.

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