Magna Carta (TRIH ep 62)
1215 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Magna Carta with guest Ted Vallance, Professor of History at Roehampton and author of A Radical History of Britain. The conversation covers King John’s failures (loss of Normandy, taxation, reputed cruelties), the immediate context of the Runnymede settlement in June 1215, and key clauses of the charter (church liberties, protections for London, clauses on arrest/imprisonment and justice). Vallance situates Magna Carta among European precedents, highl...
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- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)