Newsletter #6: Magna Carta, etc.
This month's newsletter features rebel barons, Plantagenet kings, the White Ship, Genghis Khan, art-thieving aliens and one very dodgy castle
In the early autumn of 1215 King John of England wrote a letter to the Pope. John had got himself into a sticky situation, and needed help getting out of it. A few months earlier an alliance of English barons and bishops – the most powerful men in his realm – had forced John to grant them a long list of legal rights and privileges, which were spelled ou…
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