Two women in their 80s have been charged with criminal damage after the glass around the Magna Carta was targeted at the British Library. The Metropolitan Police said two protesters hit the ...
Two elderly Just Stop Oil activists took a hammer and chisel to the protective case of the Magna Carta at the British Library in protest against the UK government’s revised climate strategy.
The medieval manuscript, which is almost 100 years older than King John’s Magna Carta and has been described as ‘Britain’s Hidden Treasure’ by the British Library, has never before been seen in its ...
The Just Stop Oil protesters, both aged in their 80s, target the historic work at the British Library ... stored among historic items like the Magna Carta. King John's will and a 1225 copy ...
There are four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta document. Two are held by the British library, one is at Salisbury Cathedral and one at Lincoln Cathedral. In the years following his ...
On 10 May this year, she walked into the British Library with a fellow protestor, Judith Bruce, and attacked the vitrine protecting the Magna Carta with a hammer. Photos of Parfitt wearing a dog ...