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

A statement from the British Library said its security team ‘intervened to prevent further damage to the case, which was minimal’ and ‘the Magna Carta itself remains undamaged’.

Inevitably, the British Library’s idea of an appropriate celebration is to invite schoolchildren to draft a “Magna Carta for the digital age,” as if developing even more rights is obviously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lincoln Castle is only place in the world where all three 13th Century manuscripts can be viewed. One of only four copies from 1215 left, the document kept at Salisbury Cathedral has a new enclosure.