Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. T

From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the

King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose mi

1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons

The constitutional foundation of English (and perhaps world) freedoms