Author: Nicholas Vincent

King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvr...

Eight hundred years ago King John of England was forced to seal a document of historic importance. As the first charter to grant individual liberti...

The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or i...

Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with ...

King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvr...

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Norman...