Magna Carta - Digital
Details of the BBC's Digital coverage of the anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta.
Published: 6 January 2015
The BBC will have a number of iWonder guides which will explore themes around the story of how Magna Carta came to be written, how it was distributed and the role it continues to play today.
These are:
How did a peace treaty from 1215 forge the freedoms of 2015?
Presented by Dan Jones and launching on 20 January 2015. This guide will explore the real story behind one of the most celebrated and influential documents in British and world political history – why was it really written and why did it become what it is today?
Has technology given you more power than ever before?
Presented by Gemma Cairney and launching on 9 February 2015. Eight-hundred years ago, a group of elite, landowning barons won themselves the right to hold their king to account – in the 21st century, does digital technology give us all the power they were prepared to go to war to achieve?
Human rights: from Magna Carta to the modern day
Presented by David Starkey and launching 5 February 2015. The timeline will trace the influence of Magna Carta through the centuries as civil and human rights were developed and extended in Britain and beyond.
