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Film, Video Human Rights Day 2022: The 1300 Magna Carta and The Charter of the Forest

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Title

  • Human Rights Day 2022: The 1300 Magna Carta and The Charter of the Forest

Summary

  • This event celebrated Human Rights Day in 2022 by discussing two foundational legal documents, Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215, the first document to put into writing the principles that the king and the government was not above the law. Magna Carta was intended to prevent the king from exploiting regal powers, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a unique and accountable authority. The Sandwich Magna Carta was discovered in 2015, 800 years later, in a Victorian scrapbook along with an original Charter of the Forest. The Forest Charter was issued to complement Magna Carta and regulate the administration of large sections of England governed under forest rather than common law. The Preservation Research and Testing Division (PRTD) at the Library of Congress had the opportunity through a collaborative agreement, to explore and recover damaged original text and understand the background of these significant documents.

Event Date

  • December 08, 2022

Running Time

  • 1 hours 23 minutes 33 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Human Rights Day: The 1300 Magna Carta and The Charter of the Forest. 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10687/.

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(2022) Human Rights Day: The 1300 Magna Carta and The Charter of the Forest. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10687/.

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Human Rights Day: The 1300 Magna Carta and The Charter of the Forest. 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10687/>.