About the events
Join us at the Weston Library and online for a series of talks about Magna Carta, currently on display in Blackwell Hall.
Magna Carta and Jewish communities
Discover how Magna Carta affected the lives of Jewish communities in England.
Dr Dean Irwin is a historian of medieval Anglo-Jewry, a visiting fellow at the University of Lincoln, and co-convenor of the Medieval Anglo-Jewish History and Records seminar at Oxford.
Thursday 20 February 2025, 12–1pm (GMT)
In person at the Weston Library and online via Zoom
Booking for this talk is now closed.
Magna Carta and England’s First Revolution, 1258-1265
Between 1258 and 1265, a party led by Simon de Montfort earl of Leicester seized the reins of government from King Henry III and ruled in his name with the help of parliament – England’s First Revolution. Magna Carta was transformed from a manifesto for good kingship into a political totem for a rogue regime, and confirmed in the great Montfortian assembly of 1265 known to history as the ‘first House of Commons’.
Dr Sophie Thérèse Ambler is Reader in Medieval History and Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University. She is author of The Song of Simon de Montfort: England’s First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry (Picador and OUP, 2019) and Bishops in the Political Community of England 1213-1272 (OUP, 2017).
Thursday 27 March 2025, 1–2pm (GMT)
In person at the Weston Library and online via Zoom
In-person attendance is now fully booked.
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Location
These talks lecture will be held in person in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library and online via Zoom.
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
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Wheelchair access
There is step-free access to the lecture theatre via Blackwell Hall.
