There's just over a week to go before the end of the excellent (and free!) Taking Liberties exhibition at the British Library.

It tells the story of the long, hard fight for civil liberties and rights in Britain (900 years and counting) and puts some fascinating, rarely seen documents on show together: Magna Carta, the Death Warrant of Charles I, the 1689 Bill of Rights, the Great Reform Act 1832, to name but a few.

As well as adding depth and texture to the history everyone knows (being inches away from Cromwell's signature on Charles I's death warrant blew my tiny mind), the exhibition also highlights a number of documents and events that, though fundamental to the development of civil liberties in the UK, have somehow been overshadowed or forgotten (The Charter of the Forest, for example, or The Putney Debates).

It all comes together to show that, quite contrary to any romantic notion that Britain has always been the seat of liberty, the fight for citizens' rights in the UK has been long, hard, bloody and inconsistent. There has been ground lost as well as won, and it is a battle that rolls on and on.

If you can, get down to the British Library and see it for yourself before it closes for good.

If you can't, then do at least check out the online version, which details most of the key exhibits and replicates the exhibition's interactive opinion poll that lets you record (anonymously) where you stand on today's civil liberties issues before showing you how your views compare with other participants.

My 'Taking Liberties' interactive results. Bang go my revolutionary credentials.