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115 relations: Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice, Atheism, Barnardiston's King's Bench Reports, BBC, BBC News, Bible, Binding over, Blasphemous libel, Blasphemy, Blasphemy Act 1697, Blasphemy law, Breach of the peace, Broadcasting Act 1990, Canon law, Christian Voice (UK), Christianity, Church in Wales, Church of England, City of Westminster, Common law, Common law offence, Corporal punishment, Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, Criminal Law Act 1967, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, David Blunkett, David Hume (advocate), Dead letter mail, Director of Public Prosecutions, Divisional court (England and Wales), Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677, Edward Moxon, Edward VI of England, Eucharist, European Convention on Human Rights, Evan Harris, Fatwa, First Statute of Repeal, Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom, Gay News, George Carey, George William Foote, God, Gordon Brown, Guy Aldred, Henry Hetherington, Henry VIII of England, High Court of Justice, Home Secretary, ..., House of Lords, Human Rights Act 1998, Indictable offence, Interregnum (England), James Kirkup, James Nayler, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Jesus, John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner, John William Gott, John Wycliffe, Law Commission (England and Wales), Law report, Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, List of Latin legal terms, Lollardy, Margin of appreciation, Mark Stephens (solicitor), Matthew Hale (jurist), National Secular Society, Nicolas Walter, Northern Ireland law, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peter Tatchell, Principality of Wales, Profane Oaths Act 1745, Quakers, Queen Mab (poem), Queen's Bench, Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, Rationalism, Rationalist Association, Recognizance, Religion in the United Kingdom, Religious offense, Richard Carlile, Richard Webster (British author), Ruhollah Khomeini, Rump Parliament, Sacrament Act 1547, Salman Rushdie, Scots law, Second Protectorate Parliament, Speakers' Corner, St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Daily Telegraph, The Freethinker (journal), The Guardian, The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name, The Satanic Verses, The Scotsman, Theatres Act 1968, Thomas Aikenhead, Thomas Woolston, Toleration Act 1689, Tom Denning, Baron Denning, Trafalgar Square, Trinity, Unitarianism, United Kingdom, University of Chicago, Verbal abuse, Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919, Welsh Church Act 1914, Whitehouse v Lemon. Expand index (65 more) »
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
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Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' text for criminal lawyers in England & Wales and several other common law jurisdictions around the world.
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Atheism
Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Barnardiston's King's Bench Reports
Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench, together with some other cases from T. T. 12 Geo.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Binding over
In the law of England and Wales and in other common law jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, binding over, a binding over order, and binding over for sentence are exercises of certain powers by magistrates.
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Blasphemous libel
Blasphemous libel was originally an offence under the common law of England.
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Blasphemy
Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable.
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Blasphemy Act 1697
The Blasphemy Act 1697 (9 Will 3 c 35) was an Act of the Parliament of England.
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Blasphemy law
A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is irreverence or insult toward holy personages, religious groups, sacred artifacts, customs, or beliefs.
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Breach of the peace
Breach of the peace, or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries, and in a wider public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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Broadcasting Act 1990
The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a quintessential example of Thatcherism.
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Canon law
Canon law (from Greek kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (Church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
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Christian Voice (UK)
Christian Voice (CV) is a Christian advocacy group based in the United Kingdom.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Church in Wales
The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.
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City of Westminster
The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Common law offence
Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law and the related criminal law of other Commonwealth countries.
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Corporal punishment
Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person.
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Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c 4) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes significant changes in many areas of the criminal justice system in England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Criminal Law Act 1967
The Criminal Law Act 1967 (c.58) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Oifis an Ard-Ghnìomhachas agus Seirbheis Neach-casaid an Ard-Ghnìomhachas, Croun Office an Procurator Fiscal Service) is the independent public prosecution service for Scotland, and is a Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government.
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David Blunkett
David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, (born 6 June 1947) is a former British politician, having represented the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years through to 7 May 2015 when he stepped down at the general election.
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David Hume (advocate)
David Hume, Baron Hume of Ninewells FRSE (1757–1838) was a Scottish advocate, judge and legal scholar, whose work on Scots criminal law and Scots private law has had a deep and continuing influence.
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Dead letter mail
Dead letter mail or undeliverable mail is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to the sender.
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Director of Public Prosecutions
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world.
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Divisional court (England and Wales)
A divisional court, in relation to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, means a court sitting with at least two judges.
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Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677
The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677 (29 Car 2 c 9) was an Act of the Parliament of England.
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Edward Moxon
Edward Moxon (12 December 1801 – 3 June 1858) was a British poet and publisher, significant in Victorian literature.
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Edward VI of England
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.
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Eucharist
The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.
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European Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international treaty to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.
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Evan Harris
Evan Leslie Harris (born 21 October 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
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Fatwa
A fatwā (فتوى; plural fatāwā فتاوى.) in the Islamic faith is a nonbinding but authoritative legal opinion or learned interpretation that the Sheikhul Islam, a qualified jurist or mufti, can give on issues pertaining to the Islamic law.
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First Statute of Repeal
The First Statute of Repeal was an Act of the Parliament of England (1 Mary, st. 2, c. 2), passed in 1553 in the first Parliament of Mary I of England's reign, nullified all religious legislation passed under the previous monarch, the boy-King Edward VI, and the de facto rulers of that time, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
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Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom
The right to freedom of religion in the United Kingdom is provided for in all three constituent legal systems, by devolved, national, European, and international law and treaty.
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Gay News
Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE).
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George Carey
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, (born 13 November 1935) is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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George William Foote
George William Foote (11 January 1850 – 17 October 1915) was an English secularist and journal editor.
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God
In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.
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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
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Guy Aldred
Guy Alfred Aldred (often Guy A. Aldred; 5 November 1886 – 16 October 1963) was a British anarchist communist and a prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation (APCF).
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Henry Hetherington
Henry Hetherington (17 June 1792 – 23 August 1849) was a leading British Chartist.
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Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.
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High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
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Home Secretary
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998 (c42) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998, and mostly came into force on 2 October 2000.
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Indictable offence
In many common law jurisdictions (e.g., England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).
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Interregnum (England)
The Interregnum was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660 which marked the start of the Restoration.
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James Kirkup
James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009), born James Harold Kirkup, was an English poet, translator and travel writer.
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James Nayler
James Nayler (or Naylor; 1616–1660) was an English Quaker leader.
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Jerry Springer: The Opera
Jerry Springer: The Opera is a British musical written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, based on the talk show Jerry Springer.
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Jesus
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
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John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner
John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner (3 February 1859 – 24 May 1934), was a British lawyer and judge.
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John William Gott
John William Gott (1866 – 4 November 1922) was the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy.
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John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, Wickliffe; 1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, Biblical translator, reformer, English priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford.
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Law Commission (England and Wales)
In England and Wales the Law Commission (Comisiwm y Gyfraith) is an independent body set up by Parliament by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reforms.
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Law report
Law reports or reporters are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided by courts.
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Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman (29 July 1911 – 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986.
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List of Latin legal terms
A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims.
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Lollardy
Lollardy (Lollardism, Lollard movement) was a pre-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century to the English Reformation.
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Margin of appreciation
The margin of appreciation (or margin of state discretion) is a doctrine with a wide scope in international human rights law.
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Mark Stephens (solicitor)
Mark Howard Stephens CBE (born 7 April 1957) is an English solicitor specialising in media law, intellectual property rights and human rights with the firm Howard Kennedy LLP.
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Matthew Hale (jurist)
Sir Matthew Hale (1 November 1609 – 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown.
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National Secular Society
The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state.
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Nicolas Walter
Nicolas Hardy Walter (22 November 1934 – 7 March 2000) was a British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
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Northern Ireland law
Northern Ireland law refers to the legal system of statute and common law operating in Northern Ireland since the partition of Ireland established Northern Ireland as a separate jurisdiction within the United Kingdom in 1921.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.
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Peter Tatchell
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is a British human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
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Principality of Wales
The Principality of Wales (Tywysogaeth Cymru) existed between 1216 and 1536, encompassing two-thirds of modern Wales during its height between 1267 and 1277.
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Profane Oaths Act 1745
The Profane Oaths Act 1745 (19 Geo. II, c.21) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1746, in effect from 1 June 1746, and formally repealed in 1967.
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Quakers
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
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Queen Mab (poem)
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet.
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Queen's Bench
The Queen's Bench (or, during the reign of a male monarch, the King's Bench, Cour du banc du Roi) is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the Commonwealth realms.
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Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 (c. 1) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which creates an offence in England and Wales of inciting hatred against a person on the grounds of their religion.
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Rationalism
In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".
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Rationalist Association
The Rationalist Association, originally the Rationalist Press Association, is an organisation in the United Kingdom, founded in 1885 by a group of free thinkers who were unhappy with the increasingly political and decreasingly intellectual tenor of the British secularist movement.
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Recognizance
In some common law nations, a recognizance is a conditional obligation undertaken by a person before a court.
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Religion in the United Kingdom
Religion in the United Kingdom, and in the countries that preceded it, has been dominated for over 1,400 years by various forms of Christianity.
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Religious offense
Religious offense means any action which offends religious sensibilities and arouses serious negative emotions in people with strong belief and which is usually associated with an orthodox response to, or correction of, sin.
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Richard Carlile
Richard Carlile (8 December 1790 – 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom.
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Richard Webster (British author)
Richard Webster (17 December 1950 – 24 June 2011) was a British author.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (سید روحالله موسوی خمینی; 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician.
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Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride purged the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.
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Sacrament Act 1547
The Sacrament Act 1547 (1 Edw 6 c 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England.
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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
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Scots law
Scots law is the legal system of Scotland.
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Second Protectorate Parliament
The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons.
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Speakers' Corner
A Speakers' Corner is an area where open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed.
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields is an English Anglican church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Freethinker (journal)
The Freethinker was a British secular humanist magazine, founded by G.W. Foote in 1881.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name
The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name is a controversial poem by James Kirkup.
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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Theatres Act 1968
The Theatres Act 1968 abolished censorship of the stage in the United Kingdom, receiving royal assent on 26 July 1968, after passing both Houses of Parliament.
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Thomas Aikenhead
Thomas Aikenhead (– 8 January 1697) was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20 on a charge of blasphemy under the Act against Blasphemy 1661 and Act against Blasphemy 1695.
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Thomas Woolston
Thomas Woolston (baptised November 1668 – 27 January 1733) was an English theologian.
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Toleration Act 1689
The Toleration Act 1689 (1 Will & Mary c 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Act of the Parliament of England, which received the royal assent on 24 May 1689.
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Tom Denning, Baron Denning
Alfred Thompson “Tom” Denning, Baron Denning, (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999) was an English lawyer and judge.
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Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
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Trinity
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from Greek τριάς and τριάδα, from "threefold") holds that God is one but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons".
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Unitarianism
Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Verbal abuse
Verbal abuse (verbal attack or verbal assault) is when a person forcefully criticizes, insults, or denounces someone else.
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Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919
The Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Welsh Church Act 1914
The Welsh Church Act 1914 is an Act under which the Church of England was separated and disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire, leading to the creation of the Church in Wales.
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Whitehouse v Lemon
Whitehouse v Lemon is a 1977 court case involving the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_Kingdom
