Exhibition: Magna Carta Through the Ages

As part of the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the Society of Antiquaries will be staging a special exhibition where visitors will have the unique opportunity to see its three copies of the charter.

The exhibition will explore the antiquarian interest in the 'Great Charter' through the centuries and the Society’s three copies will show the ways in which Magna Carta has continued to be relevant to successive generations.

These include:

A copy of the 1215 charter made from a discarded draft, which sheds light on the process by which the terms of Magna Carta were negotiated;

A copy of the 1225 reissue in an early 14th-century collection of statutes; which illustrates how Magna Carta was received in a 14th-century legal context;

A unique roll copy of the reissue in 1225, which was a part of the Society’s tercentenary Making History exhibition in 2007.