Wednesday 8 July 2015, 6pm Durham University Speaker: Dr. Christian Liddy, Durham University and academic curator of the exhibition. Tickets £10 Includes a visit to the exhibition and drinks reception. Magna Carta was the product of revolt. At different points in British history the identity, rights, and responsibilities of the citizen have provoked resistance to […]
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Lecture: Magna Carta: The View from Durham
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 […]
Magna Carta and the City of London Walking Tours
Date: 1st June – 20th September Free admission Tours will begin at temple and progress to the Guildhall. For more information, click here.
Magna Carta Through the Ages – Society of Antiquaries
Date: 26th May – 31st July Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, London As part of the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the Society of Antiquaries will be staging a special exhibition where visitors will have the unique opportunity to see its three copies of the charter. The exhibition Magna Carta Through […]
2015 Group Magna Carta offers at Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park
New for this year only, your group can celebrate the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede in 1215, with a great value French Brothers river boat cruise with historic commentary along the Thames from Runnymede with views of Windsor Castle with a combined visit to The Savill Garden. It was 800 […]
Hereford: Three Choirs Festival
25 July – 5 August Hereford Cathedral boasts two important Magna Carta items, housed in its New Library Building, alongside a wealth of other medieval treasures. The first of these is the finest surviving 1217 Magna Carta, a significant revision and reissue of King John’s Magna Carta by his son, Henry III. This superseded the […]
Magna Carta: Icon of Justice – Pledge of Freedom
23 March – 3 September Hereford Cathedral boasts two important Magna Carta items, housed in its New Library Building, alongside a wealth of other medieval treasures. The first of these is the finest surviving 1217 Magna Carta, a significant revision and reissue of King John’s Magna Carta by his son, Henry III. This superseded the […]
Magna Carta Lecture Series: Speaker Mark Carney
16 July The next installment to the Magna Carta Lecture Series 2015: Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, hosts his lecture in Lincoln Cathedral. Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, continues the Lincoln Magna Carta Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in the Nave of Lincoln’s beautiful Cathedral. Tickets for […]
‘Marks of Genius’ exhibition, at the Morgan Library, Oxford
The Bodleian Library will display the Gloucester Charter from 6th June – 28th September 2015 at the new Weston Library in an exhibition entitled Marks of Genius. The library is also planning a smaller display in the atrium of the Weston Library and hopes to show two other Charters there in May and June, with […]
Liberteas: Worcester Cathedral
LiberTeas at Worcester Cathedral are a series of afternoon talks, with tea, all based around the subject of Liberty inspired by Magna Carta. Each talk is by an expert in their subject and will last for approx. one and a half to two hours with time for questions and answers. The LiberTeas are planned to […]