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Looked the author up on Wikipedia and found he has also recently written a book on the Magna Carta called Magna Carta: The Making And Legacy Of The Great Charter.

What's being celebrated today is not Magna Carta itself, but the myth that's grown up around it.

It's unclear whether Magna Carta is used as the title of the document or not: it seems to depend.

Can anyone recommend a good book on the Magna Carta and the historical background to it?

You're not contributing anything and at the time Magna Carta was signed people had known the earth was round for over 1,000 years.

I also like the Fabriano Misto Carta notebooks, particularly the gluebound A5 stars version which allows pages to be easily separated.

The magna carta, despite being 800 years old, is still the best example of signing away the right of kings in favour of democratic government by the people.

Yeah, that's from the magna carta (it's nowhere in the US Constitution, incidentally), and it was meant as a guarantee that only nobles could be on a jury of another noble.

He's also the one pointing out that the UK government is keen to celebrate Magna Carta (which has no constitutional status or enforceability) while dismantling the Human Rights act (which is definitely enforceable).

Of interest to the Canadian readers: one version of Magna Carta is on tour and currently on display at the Canadian Museum of History (i.e., the good old Museum of Civilization) in Ottawa.

Subjectively most British adults are frighteningly passive to surveillance and seem oblivious to losing privacy rights, I would not want British people to create the Magna Carta of the internet!

So the 'votes' here have nothing to do with the spirit of the Magna Carta so I'm not certain why the BBC linked them.

As that notable academic, Tony Hancock, once asked, "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you?

For anyone wondering about why it's being called "Magna Carta" instead of "the Magna Carta"...

Of course, in proper English it's "the Magna Carta." The rules of Latin have no bearing on proper English.

As a result, the usual academic convention is to refer to the document in English without the article as "Magna Carta" rather than "the Magna Carta".

That's the problem with Magna Carta, it doesn't actually mean anything.

You can search the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the United Nations Charter, etc.

I didn't read it, but Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction has been recommend.