The National Council for Civil Liberties and the Policing of Interwar Politics: At Liberty to Protest

by Janet Clark

Public interest is no less exercised in the twenty-first century by civil liberties, police powers and the policing of public order than it was in the 1930s, or indeed a century earlier. The National Council for Civil Liberties (the precursor to civil rights organization Liberty) emerged in 1934 in protest at the policing of political expression. Historians have written extensively about public order, political extremism and the authorities and subversion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085179
• ISBN13: 9780719085178
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"