by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image: Horace Barker as King John from a postcard of the Bury St Edmunds Historical Pageant (1907), by permission of the St Edmundsbury Heritage Service. October 2016 marks the octocentenary of the death of King John, the ruler who gave us Magna Carta. Dr Alexander...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2016 | History & Classics, Interviews, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tom Hulme, early career lecturer in urban history at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Historical Research (IHR), explains how ‘shock cities’ and those that used to be shocking (such as Manchester and Chicago in the first half of the 20th century), shape...
by aseifert | Jun 12, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Magna Carta 800, Politics & Law
On 15 June 1215, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, King John sealed (not signed) the Magna Carta. Although this iteration of the document on legal rights lasted for a very short time before being torn up, its successors paved...
by aseifert | May 26, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Magna Carta 800, Research & Resources
On 15 May 1679, the supporters of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, introduced the Exclusion Bill in the Commons. The intention was to exclude James from the succession to the throne. Professor Michael Braddick tells us more about the Exclusion Crisis...
by aseifert | May 21, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Events, Magna Carta 800
Faversham’s 1300 Magna Carta is about to make a rare public appearance as the centrepiece of an exhibition, which opens in the town on 23 May. The project’s curator, Laura Samuels explains what visitors can expect from the historic market town’s commemoration of Magna...
