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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The new enclosure in the cathedral's chapter house ensures light levels do not get too high One of the four remaining copies of Magna Carta has been placed inside a new display box to prevent ...

The four surviving 1215 copies of Magna Carta were brought together for the first time last week at an event in the British Library marking the charter’s 800th anniversary. Proposals to ditch ...

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 ...