Magna carta

"When you hear the word ‘document’ you might not get all that excited. Maybe you think about filing paperwork, taxes, or important documents you’re scared to lose like your birth certificate. But really… Documents can change the world. That’s right. With just ink and a few, or many pages, the entire world can be impacted.

This study will focus on five noteworthy periods: the first century of Magna Carta, opposition to the early Stuart kings, mid eighteenth-century Britain, eighteenth-century colonial America and Britain in the present day.

Have you heard of the Magna Carta? Do you know what it is, or why it’s so important? On the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Eileen Cameron fills you in...

Magna Carta

Browse our KS3 Magna Carta & Parliament teaching resources and activities that are specifically for teaching KS3 History in years 7, 8 and 9 (Aged 11-14).

Magna Carta octocentenary page - Neil Bromley

The document set out the principle that everybody was subject to the law, even the king.

Magna Carta

DesignCrowd wondered what other historical moments Donald Trump himself could potentially hijack and reuse for his own purpose.

English Royalty. He received a place in history for being the King of England from 1199 to 1216. John was the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and youngest brother of Richard the Lionheart. He married twice with the first being a political move to a distant cousin Isabel of Gloucester; this was annulled. Then...