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 […]
Saturday 14th March 2015 Ascot Berkshire The launch event for the Magna Carta celebrations in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead at the stunning Coworth Park Hotel in Ascot (part of the Dorchester Collection). Tickets cost £75 per head and are available at (insert the above website link). The Magna Carta is the foundation […]
11th – 30th March Maidenhead Berskhire To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, we are delighted to be hosting the touring Magna Carta Women Exhibition by Tracy Satchwill. She describes her work as “a playful collage of women and men who have had an impact on British women and their […]
Tuesday 17th March 2015 Maidenhead Berkshire To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, we are delighted to not only be hosting the touring Magna Carta Women Exhibition by Tracy Satchwill, but also having Tracy join us to talk about her fascinating work. She describes her exhibition as “a playful collage […]
On Sunday 14th June, thanks to the generosity of Glyn Larcombe and his wife we intend to hold a ‘Liber Tea’ at the Grange followed by a ‘Songs of Praise’. This will mirror a Liber Tea to celebrate Magna Carta to be held in the Victoria Gardens next to the Houses of Commons and Lords […]
On Saturday 13th June 2015, the village fair will become a Medieval fair – with a Medieval pageant held down Wraysbury High St.
Thursday 11th June 2015 in Wraysbury Village Hall It is intended that the Wraysbury Players will give an entertainment based on Magna Carta to include readings and music. For more information, click here.
There will be a flower festival on 6th and 7th June 2015, organised by Lucy Foster in St Andrew’s Church (which would have been over one hundred years’ old in 1215). For more information, please click here
7 – 9th April Lincoln Cathedral’s 1215 Magna Carta is one of only four surviving originals. Copies of the documents were distributed to sheriffs, to important religious houses and to cathedrals, including Lincoln where the then bishop, Hugh of Wells, had been present at Runnymede in June of that year. The Lincoln Magna Carta has […]
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 […]