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British Library: Dreamers and Dissenters HandoutBritish Library: Dreamers and Dissenters Handout
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British Library
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9th - 10th
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British Library: Dreamers and Dissenters

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How do people work to change society for the better? The British Library presents case studies of visionaries, dissenters and rule breakers through the past centuries. Counter culture, the struggle for democracy, and utopias are looked at and students are encouraged to apply the lessons of the past to current civics education.

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voting rights, citizenship, civil disobedience, suffragists

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counterculture, freedoms and rights, liberation movements, peace movement, struggle for democracy, utopias, british library online: learning: citizenship: dreamers and dissenters, counter culture, dissenters, electorate, values and attitudes within canadian citizenship

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