BAD KING JOHN
THE MAGNA CARTA KING KING JOHN DIDN’T ACTUALLY SIGN MAGNA CARTA, AS ILLUSTRATED HERE, BUT GRANTED HIS ROYAL SEAL TO IT
There is a meadow on the outskirts of London, sat on the bank of the River ames in Surrey. It doesn’t look like much, certainly not a spot heavy with symbolic meaning, but that field, Runnymede, is where one of the founding documents of human liberty was created and agreed on, 800 years ago.
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