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|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

|author=Dan Jones

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=December 2014

|summary=Surely the most colourful, and probably the most definitive, book on this subject you would ever need to prime yourself ready for the 800-year celebrations.

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For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widows' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

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