This year, Magna Carta is being acclaimed as the contract that first established the idea that law was above government. As British politician and historian Daniel Hannan has put it, from Magna ...

As the popular Twitter adage goes: if Magna Carta is trending on Twitter/X ... smashing the protective glass case around a copy in the British Library – and now it’s being mentioned off ...

Lincoln Castle is only place in the world where all three 13th Century manuscripts can be viewed. One of only four copies from 1215 left, the document kept at Salisbury Cathedral has a new enclosure.

There are four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta document. Two are held by the British library, one is at Salisbury Cathedral and one at Lincoln Cathedral. In the years following his ...

The exhibition includes the Magna Carta, dating from 1215; the Charter of the Forest from 1217 and an amended version of the latter written in 1225. The Magna Carta, signed by King John ...

Two climate activists smashed a part of the glass case protecting the original text of the Magna Carta, England's historic ...

The medieval manuscript, which is almost 100 years older than King John’s Magna Carta and has been described as ‘Britain’s Hidden Treasure’ by the British Library, has never before been seen in its ...

Her first source is a copy of Magna Carta from 1297. Caslin highlights its importance as one of the first documents in British history to protect the rights of the individual. Caslin then explores ...

as he went from problem child to angry adult and how, just a year before his rotten death, he signed the Magna Carta in 1215 - the greatest thing to come out of his reign and a document that still ...