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 ...

The Magna Carta, stipulating rights agreed by King John at Runnymede and aimed at preventing exploitation of power, was sealed in 1215. A second version was issued the following year after John's ...

Newark was a very important location during the English Civil War in the 1640s, as King Charles I used it as a key Royalist ...

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, the grandson of the famed Owain Gwynedd, was born at the old Dolwyddelan castle in about 1173. By 1200, ...

Visitors to Durham Cathedral are invited to book up now for a rare opportunity to view the Magna Carta more than 800 years on from its signing. The city landmark has three copies in its collection ...

A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on ...

William Mullins and his family boarded the Mayflower at Rotherhithe on the south bank of the Thames in east London in July 1620 along with some 60 fellow pilgrims. The steps down to the jetty used by ...

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people.

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Magna Carta completed the damage. There may have been very little to be said for the barons at Runnymede, but the myths surrounding the charter have ensured that John would always go down as a bad man ...