Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor David ...

Speaking at the Liberal Democrat spring conference, the party leader advocated for a "new Magna Carta " to safeguard the UK's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars for decades believed Harvard's document was a copy written in 1327. In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded it ...

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey calls on Britain to have a “new Magna Carta” to protect the UK’s commitment to “universal human rights” which will be "resistant to authoritarian creeps like ...

The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...