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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Magna Carta
Description: Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about a medieval document that is sometimes thought to contain a ground-breaking promise of basic political rights. David talks to historian Nick Vincent about Magna Carta (1215) and what it did and didn’t actually say. Why did the warring parties agree to it? Was it a constitutional charter or a peace treaty? What happened when its terms were broken? And how did it come to acquire the totemic significance it has today?Sign up now to get our free fortnightly newsletter out tomorrow – with writing, clips, links and more...