Saturday 15 June 2019

The Great Thingy

On this day in June 1215, King John was compelled to put his seal to the Great Charter by a bunch of democratically-minded barons. Yep, those barons - they were always giving it to the poor.

 Here, Messers Sellar and Yeatman remind us of the meaning of this momentous thingy, from 1066 And All That.




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