Wales is called the “castle capital of the world” for a reason. The Normans had a tough time of it here and built over 600 ...

Human rights, defined as the basic rights and freedoms inherent to all individuals, have evolved considerably in both scope and application in the modern era. Contemporary societies have increasingly ...

Author: Over a 30-year Air Force career, Cam Torrens served as an air mobility pilot, diplomat and university professor.

The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede Meadows near London. It was annulled just a few weeks later, and ...

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the present ...

Magna Carta, Latin for ‘great charter,’ was sealed at Runnymede in June 1215 between King John and a group of rebellious barons. It was born out of a period of deep unrest, when John faced financial ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was studying online copies of the Magna Carta in December 2023 when he realised the version he was looking at on Harvard ...

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. By Stephen Castle ...

How the discovery happened Prof Carpenter was studying unofficial copies of Magna Carta when he came across the digitised version of HLS MS 172 on the Harvard Law School Library website and realised ...

Carpenter was studying unofficial Magna Carta copies when he saw a digitized version of Harvard’s document and suspected it could be an original. He teamed up with medieval history professor ...

What was long thought to be a copy of the Magna Carta at Harvard Law School in the US is in fact an extremely rare original from among seven surviving versions of the document issued by English ...