BBC Documentaries David Starkey's Magna Carta
BBC Documentaries David Starkey's Magna Carta
We take our liberties for granted. They seem absolute and untouchable. But they are the result of a series of violent struggles fought over 800 years that, at times, have threatened to tear our society apart. On the frontline was a document originally inked on animal skin: Magna Carta. Distinguished constitutional historian David Starkey looks at the origins of the Great Charter, created in 1215 to check the abuses of King John – and how it nearly died at birth. He explores its subsequent deployment, its contribution to making everyone – even the monarch – subject to the rule of law, and how this quintessentially English document migrated to the North American colonies and eventually became the foundation of the US constitution.
- 2015
- 00:59:05
- 15-17
- Added on: 07/06/2020
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- Subjects
- Magna Carta [LCSH] Magna Carta -- Influence [LCSH] Constitutional history -- England [LCSH] Rule of law -- England -- History [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Law -- Study and teaching [LCSH] World history [LCSH]
- Team
- David Starkey (Writer), Christopher Spencer (Producer)
- Closed captioning
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- MARC Record
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