EVENT OF THE MONTH: FEBRUARY 2015

Magna Carta was not the first time that a monarch had agreed in writing to place limits on the power of the crown. Magna Carta, despite the pennant flying theatricality of the showdown at Runnymede in June, 1215, suffered a rapid demise. 
                                                     
By August the same year, Pope Innocent III had annulled Magna Carta, declaring it illegal and having been sealed under duress. King John therefore never lived with the full consequences of the Magna Carta humiliation, and by October of 1216, he died.

Once these ideas of freedom were liberated by the events of 19 June, 1215, and it had been shown that not even the king was above the Common Law of the land, then Magna Carta became an idea which could never be uninvented, or unimagined.

Over the course of the next 800 years, the idea of Magna Carta has assumed a greater authority in respect of  liberty and justice. In 2015 The Houses of Parliament, along with the nation, will be celebrating 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta.

Date for your Diary

5 February: The four original Magna Cartas to be united at Parliament

For more information on Events at Parliament: http://magnacarta800th.com