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  <dc:title>Freedom Defence Committee (papers supplied by Vernon Richards)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The papers in this file are mostly photocopies.

This file relates to the Freedom Defence Committee, an organisation which aimed to protect free speech, and of which George Orwell was a prominent member. These papers include correspondence, memos, minutes of meetings, editions of the bulletin, press releases, and press cuttings. The correspondence and press releases detail individual cases of the Committee's support for human rights cases, and for people experiencing political repression.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1945-1948</dc:date>
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