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

Law Library Special Collections Rare Book Room Exhibits Exploring Magna Carta This is the first printed edition of Bracton, which had circulated in manuscript for centuries. This edition was printed ...

In May, she joined Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old, in a protest at the British Library where they are accused of cracking a glass ...

Only four original copies of Magna Carta survive. Two are kept in the British Library (one of which was badly damaged by fire in 1731), one in Salisbury cathedral, and one in Lincoln castle. They were ...

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 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 ...

The ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress cosponsored a lecture with the Library of Congress: "Magna Carta from Runnymede to Washington: Old Laws, New Discoveries." Magna Carta scholar ...

Some of the tenets set out in Magna Carta can still be clearly reflected in the modern British legal system today. By ensuring that all men were considered equal in the eyes of the law, that all men ...

Although its form was normal for the time, Magna Carta was the product of political crisis and an uprising of the leading men of England. from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for free, ...

The Magna Carta is one of the world’s most famous documents ... It was originally accompanied by the reissued ‘Charter of the Forest’, now held by the British Library, which established access to the ...