Preview: David Starkey’s Magna Carta
20th January 2015
In light of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta at Runnymede in June 1215, historian David Starkey looks back at the Great Charter and its prominence in history in this BBC documentary.
In this hour-long programme, David Starkey will reveal how the Magna Carta outlined the law of the land, which everyone – even the monarch – would be required to abide by.
Starkey discovers…