Demonstrates how activists worked together during the post-war decades to transform public attitudes towards violations of human rights.

Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement (1991), Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997), and The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory (2007). He has also published Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945 to the present (2006/2012), East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925-1976 (2012) and his most recent publication is a co-edited book on the centenary of the Balkan Wars titled War in the Balkans (2015).

Introduction; 1. Dawn: 1934-50; 2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s; 3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945-64; 4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961-4; 5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964-68; 6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights; 7. Torture states: 1967-75; 8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s; Conclusion. The winds of history.