{"id":5490,"date":"2016-03-23T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:39:57","slug":"magna-carta-libertatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"MAGNA CARTA LIBERTATUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0With today’s distressing news coming out of Brussels, I recall the day 18 months ago when I raised a middle finger salute to ISIS and \u00a0defied their specific threat to hit London Transport and made a pilgrimage from central London out to Runnymede. \u00a0The Metropolitan Police guarding Waterloo Station, dressed in full Robocop with automatic weapons strapped across their chests and pistols holstered on their thighs (back in my student days they went unarmed!), \u00a0regarded my heavy camera backpack with suspicion. Nevertheless I was allowed to board the train out to Egham and begin my hike through the rolling meadows along the winding Thames in the west of London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Runnymede is the world famous meadow where King John signed the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Magna<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0MAGNA CARTA, NICOLAS VINCENT, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is home to five thirteenth century \u00a0copies of \u00a0Magna Carta. The Bodleian is Britain’s oldest library and second only in size to the very modern British Library in central London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Vincent, a world authority on Magna Carta, has just this month released a \u00a0new treatise \u00a0which commemorates the 800th anniversary of the signing of the famous charter. It is available from Oxford University Press, the largest book publisher in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction from Professor Vincent’s magnificent tome: “Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history, arguably in the history of the English-speaking world.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Runnymede\"<\/a>MAGNA CARTA MEMORIAL, RUNNYMEDE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The memorial was erected in 1959 by the American Bar Association in recognition of America’s legacy of \u00a0jurisprudence stretching back to Runnymede.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shortly after posting my photos of that day on my blog, I was contacted by the Bodleian for permission to use the above image in their 800th anniversary project. I’m flattered that they have chosen to display it as a two page centrefold in their flagship Magna Carta anniversary edition. Congratulations to all on a job well done!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another image shot that day went into an interactive display at Worcester Cathedral just steps from the royal effigy (best in Britain!) \u00a0of King John (see above cover). For more on the use of that image, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0All in all it proved to be one of my most productive days.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAGNA CARTA \u00a0LIBERTATUM<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

LET FREEDOM RING, BABY!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

LET FREEDOM RING!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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