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 ...

The Very Reverend June Osborne, Dean of Salisbury, takes a selfie with a laminated copy of the 1215 Magna Carta that is on display at Salisbury Cathedral. KIERAN DOHERTY/Reuters/Corbis In November of ...

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 ...

It wasn't exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was searching through the ...

Commemorate the storied document's 800th anniversary with a few special accessories. Illustration by Shaylyn Esposito Famous stick-in-the-mud Oliver Cromwell may have once dismissed the Magna Carta as ...

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 ...

Eight hundred years ago next month, on a reedy stretch of riverbank in southern England, the most important bargain in the history of the human race was struck. I realize that’s a big claim, but in ...

RUNNYMEDE, ENGLAND – When Queen Elizabeth II stepped on to the meadows of Runnymede on Monday, a great feeling of pride and affection swept the thousands who had gathered on the June-green grass to ...

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 ...