Could we have been commemorating the wrong date of Magna Carta all along? Speaking on an episode of the HistoryExtra podcast, ...

The full title of the document — Exsul Familia Nazarethana, or “The Exiled Nazarene Family” — refers to Jesus, Mary and ...

It’s remarkable that the English-speaking world remembers Magna Carta. The product of a struggle between King John and his barons, it was sealed on the bank of the Thames 800 years ago ...

That clause related to the rights of 25 barons to oversee the rights granted to them in Magna Carta, and if the chief justice or any of his officials "offend[ed] in any respect against any man ...

The barons just had to pay up ... and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established that the king was subject to the laws of ...

To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

Let’s keep Magna Carta alive. Because – as those barons showed, all those years ago – what we do today will shape the world, for many, many years to come.

Magna Carta was written at a time when the monarchy and the richest landowners, known as barons, were in dispute about how much power the king should have. It was copied and amended many times.

The Weston Library is celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta of 1225 in an exhibit titled ‘Magna Carta 1215 ...

Nestled on the banks of the River Thames in the village of Wraysbury, roughly an hour's drive from London, the house is on Magna Carta Island, which is named for the 800-year-old charter signed by ...

Magna Carta curtailed this divine right and issued ... 1215 as a peace treaty between King John and a group of rebellious barons. The original document was written in Latin on parchment made ...