The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...

Even though this Victorian estate on the idyllic River Thames was completed in 1834, the property has a history that dates back much further. Its biggest claim to fame is that it was built on the same ...

Harvard University revealed that a worn and long-overlooked document in its law library is, in fact, one of the rarest and most historically significant records in legal history—a 1300 version of the ...

May 15 (Reuters) - Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection ...