EditorialKing John and Magna Charta'. Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in June 1215. It was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the ban...
EditorialMagna charta rose hybrid. Chromolithograph by Georges Severeyns from an illustration by Walter H. Fitch from William Paul's "The Rose Garden in two divisions," London, 1888. First issued in 1848 with 15 coloured plates, "The Rose Garden" soon became a ...
EditorialThe trial of James Creassy was met with indignation by many British residents in Bengal, who published this commentary on the case to accompany the petition to the House of Commons in 1779. Ignoring Creassy’s crime, the authors of the commentary crit...
EditorialThe trial of James Creassy was met with indignation by many British residents in Bengal, who published this commentary on the case to accompany the petition to the House of Commons in 1779. Ignoring Creassy’s crime, the authors of the commentary crit...
EditorialMagna Charta Presented to King John, Print made by Anker Smith, 17591819, British, after Robert Smirke, 17521845, British, Published by J. Stratford, active 17921813, British, 1811, Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove pape...
EditorialIn 1821 M. Landry of Fancy Repository, Greenwich, published this children’s game which gave prominence to the Great Charter. Described by its anonymous author as an ‘Instructive Pastime’, the game was designed to teach chivalry to younger people....
EditorialThe Forest Charter of 1225. In 1217 Henry III (r. 1216–72) issued, alongside his new version of Magna Carta, an altogether new charter dealing with the royal forest. It was in a proclamation of February 1218 that the name ‘Magna Carta’ itself fir...
EditorialA Scheme for a New East India Company. The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia, but its monopoly in that region soon raised concerns in England about the company’s influence. This anonymous treatise in...
EditorialSince 1893, Indian settlers in South Africa had pursued a programme of civil disobedience, or ‘passive resistance’, in opposition to the racist measures imposed by the governments of South Africa. Led by the practising lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1...
EditorialA Scheme for a New East India Company. The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia, but its monopoly in that region soon raised concerns in England about the company’s influence. This anonymous treatise in...
EditorialAlthough Magna Carta was often invoked in an unsophisticated and anachronistic manner, it became a prominent symbol of liberty for early nineteenth-century radicals. They saw Magna Carta as the basis of an ancient constitution that was under threat fr...
EditorialThe trial of James Creassy was met with indignation by many British residents in Bengal, who published this commentary on the case to accompany the petition to the House of Commons in 1779. Ignoring Creassy’s crime, the authors of the commentary crit...
EditorialA Plea for the Constitution. The political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, circulated A Plea for the Constitution to influential friends and members of the British government in 1803. Bentham urged the abandonment of convict transportation to penal coloni...
EditorialKing John and Magna Charta'. Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in June 1215. It was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the ban...
EditorialThe trial of James Creassy was met with indignation by many British residents in Bengal, who published this commentary on the case to accompany the petition to the House of Commons in 1779. Ignoring Creassy’s crime, the authors of the commentary crit...
EditorialAlthough Magna Carta was often invoked in an unsophisticated and anachronistic manner, it became a prominent symbol of liberty for early nineteenth-century radicals. They saw Magna Carta as the basis of an ancient constitution that was under threat fr...
EditorialMagna charta rose hybrid. Chromolithograph by Georges Severeyns from an illustration by Walter H. Fitch from William Paul's "The Rose Garden in two divisions," London, 1888. First issued in 1848 with 15 coloured plates, "The Rose Garden" soon became a ...