As the popular Twitter adage goes: if Magna Carta is trending on Twitter/X, then that’s never a good thing. The famous historical document from 1215 has been cited many a time in recent years to ...

And on 15 June, 1215, they met the king at Runnymede, by the Thames in Surrey, and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established ...

While manuscript copies had been in circulation since 1215, the first printed Magna Carta didn’t appear until 1508. Thus, this Redman printing and the 1556 Richard Tottel printing also featured in the ...

A man who tried steal an original copy of the 1215 Magna Carta, considered to be one of the most important documents in the history of democracy, from an English cathedral was found guilty on ...

No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned?.unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land'The Magna Carta was drawn up in 1215 when King John's barons forced him to agree to ...

Magna Carta, first written in 1215, is so important because it's the first official protection of the rights of the individual. Some sentences in this document are still part of English law today.

The Magna Carta, stipulating rights agreed by King John at Runnymede and aimed at preventing exploitation of power, was sealed in 1215. A second version was issued the following year after John's ...