Month: February 2025

February 28, 2025|Uncategorized

“1216 and all that: The real story of the Magna Carta” – Nick Barratt

Dr. Nick Barratt joined us on Zoom for Wickham History Society’s second talk of 2025 where sixty five members and guests heard from the leading medievalist on the background to Magna Carta – the genesis of the parliamentary system and a fundamental influence on many other constitutions around the world. People were asking why 1216?…