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The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...

For centuries the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," has been held up as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy. It was signed, or more accurately sealed, by England's King John on June 15, 1215, ...

A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor David ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded it ...

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 ...

The Magna Carta is one of those important bits of our island story that most of us – if we’re being honest – don’t know enough about. If questioned, we might be able to mutter something about King ...

The British Library is now showing original manuscripts of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the first time they've come to the United Kingdom. But those documents are not ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...