Here’s a great property for fans of the “great charter.” The home built on the English island where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215 is available for sale, priced at 4.25 million British ...

As I’ve mentioned, this year marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede. I previously posted the introduction and my translation of the original Latin of ...

Paul Webster has in the past received funding from the AHRC. The British Library has just staged an exclusive one-day exhibition. The four earliest surviving copies of the original Magna Carta were ...

This is a romanticized 19th-century re-creation of King John signing Magna Carta on June 15, 1215. Wiki Commons Setting aside the Shakespeare-slandered Richard III, has any English monarch gotten more ...

King John, as anyone familiar with the tales of Robin Hood can tell you, was a very bad egg. His brother and predecessor, Richard, was keen on war, and spent most of his time abroad fighting. That was ...

In just a few weeks, fireworks will illuminate the night sky, parades will proceed down Main Streets, and the American people, even while social distancing, will pause to celebrate the Fourth of July, ...

"Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor," a new exhibition at the Library of Congress (LC) in Washington, D.C., celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the influential document that limited the ...

Attorneys, judges and other law officials gathered Thursday to celebrate the community and individuals’ rights under the law during the Berks County Bar Association’s annual Law Day luncheon. This ...

Featuring Ben Miller in the title role, Horrible Histories looks at the life and reign of King John (1166-1216). King John was one of the most rotten rulers of the lot, whose life was dominated by ...

LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...