Category Archives: Magna Carta & Simon de Montfort

Summer Events at the History of Parliament

Posted on July 23, 2015 by

It’s been a busy summer already at the History of Parliament. As I’m sure you know during the course of 2015 we’ve been celebrating, along with many others of course, a number of important anniversaries in parliamentary history. The two … Continue reading →

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The long-lived charter: Magna Carta’s 800 year legacy

Posted on June 15, 2015 by

800 years ago today, Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede. In the last of our series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, Dr Alexander Lock, Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library and … Continue reading →

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Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and 17th century rebellion

Posted on June 3, 2015 by

In the latest in our ongoing series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, Professor George Garnett discusses the importance of Sir Edward Coke’s 17th century commentary on Magna Carta… Sir Edward Coke’s role in English … Continue reading →

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Early Modern ideas about Parliament’s origins

Posted on May 14, 2015 by

Our series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament continues today. Dr Paul Cavill, Lecturer in Early Modern British History at Cambridge University discusses how the origins of Parliament were viewed in the early modern period… … Continue reading →

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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Alexander Lock, ‘Magna Carta: law, liberty and myth’

Posted on April 10, 2015 by

Our last ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar of term took place on 24 March. Dr Alexander Lock, one of the curators of the British Library’s current exhibition ‘Magna Carta: law, liberty, legacy’ spoke on the impact and legacy of the … Continue reading →

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Eleanor de Montfort, countess of Leicester (b. c. 1215-d. c. 1275): A countess and a rebel

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

Continuing our ongoing series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, this week’s guest blogpost looks at the role of a woman who helped to shape the politics of her time. Louise Wilkinson, Professor of Medieval … Continue reading →

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London 1264: from Magna Carta to Montfort’s Parliament.

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

As part of our series on Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s parliament, Ian Stone, a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, discusses how a recent discovery among the records of the Corporation of London shows just … Continue reading →

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