Beyond the podcast: Magna Carta
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MedievalYour guide to King John, the monarch who issued Magna Carta
From killing his nephew to losing his empire to cruelly starving his enemies to death, King John was much more than the fictitious villain of the Robin hood legend. Marc Morris highlights how the king who issued Magna Carta came to be so despised…
MembershipTurning points1215: Magna Carta.
Part five in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1200–1249. In 1215, when England's barons clipped the wings of a tyrannical king, they established principles that still influence British justice 800 years on
MembershipMagna Carta: everything you wanted to know.
Professor David Carpenter responds to listener questions on the great medieval charter and its 800-year-long legacy
MembershipWhat if...Magna Carta hadn’t been written?.
Magna Carta remains one of history's most important documents, a charter sealed by King John in 1215 that placed limits on the power of English kings. But how might John's reign have been different if Magna Carta didn't exist? Jonny Wilkes talks to Professor Nicholas Vincent about how King John could have avoided his rebellious barons’ demands...
PlantagenetThe Charter of the Forest: your guide to the 13th-century law
Two years after the issuing of Magna Carta, another piece of landmark legislation that curbed the monarchy's power received royal approval. Rhiannon Davies explores how the Charter of the Forest came about, what it changed, and why its legacy can still be felt to this day...
MembershipReform and rebellion in the reign of Henry III.
Luke Foddy examines the impact of political turbulence on the ordinary people of 13th-century England
MembershipHow King John helped bring about a political miracle in medieval England.
From the historic moment that 'bad' King John was made to put his seal to Magna Carta to parliament, taxation and the law courts, the 13th and 14th centuries heralded many changes in England. In fact, Caroline Burt and Richard Partington explore how these changes laid the foundations for the modern British state
MembershipThe Second Barons’ War: everything you wanted to know.
Nicholas Vincent responds to your questions on the revolt against Henry III, led by the formidable Simon de Montfort
MembershipWas King John murdered?.
In the late 13th century, a rumour swept England that the reviled King John hadn't been killed by dysentery – as the historical record suggests – but an assassin's poison. Why did that alternative version of the king's death gain so much traction? And is it founded on truth?
MembershipLincoln: the battle that gave birth to medieval England.
England in 1217 was a poor, rudderless kingdom at the mercy of a marauding French invasion force. But then a motley band of royalists decided to take a stand at the fortress city of Lincoln. What they did next, writes Thomas Asbridge, would change the face of their nation for good...
MembershipSimon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III.
The nobleman Simon de Montfort saw himself as a righteous general leading his army into a holy war. As Sophie Thérèse Ambler recounts, not only did he fight infidels overseas but, in the 1260s, he also challenged the authority of the crown on home soil...
PlantagenetThe Plantagenet royal dynasty: England's ultimate family drama
That a single dynasty, the Plantagenets, was able to rule England for 331 years – when disease or violence could transform the political landscape overnight – is truly remarkable, according to Robert Bartlett
MembershipHow to run a medieval dynasty: survival secrets of ruling royal families.
No medieval king could sleep easy at night until he had secured the smooth transition of his crown to a son. From marrying babes-in-arms to siring dozens of offspring, Robert Bartlett reveals the lengths to which rulers would go to ensure the survival of their dynasty
MedievalWas there a real Sheriff of Nottingham?
He is the foil to the outlaw Robin Hood, the embodiment of rapacious greed and government corruption in medieval England – but was the Sheriff of Nottingham a real man?
