Thursday 2 July 2015, 6pm
Durham University
Speaker: Professor Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia
Tickets £10

Professor Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia
Includes a visit to the exhibition and drinks reception
Durham Cathedral boasts one of the finest collections of
Magna Carta manuscripts to survive, including the only
remaining original of the 1216 issue. But why did Durham
retain so rich a haul of manuscripts? What role did Durham
or its bishops play in 1215, the subsequent civil war, or in
the survival of Magna Carta as a guarantee of English
legal custom?

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