#magna carta

[illustratus]

King John reluctantly signing the Magna Carta by Arthur C. Michael

#king john #england #magna carta #art #arthur c michael #john lackland #english #barons #knights #bishops #medieval #mediaeval #middle ages #king #windsor #runnymede #history #knight #baron #bishop #river thames #europe #european #quill pen #wax seal #rebellious #rebellion

[riesenfeldcenter]

A unicorn, a lion, and a fox/wolf/angry deer(?) from our earliest held copy of the Magna Carta. 

Someone used a couple of blank pages to trace the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. While this book was published in 1514, this drawing was made later on - these symbols were first combined with the Union of Crowns under James I in 1603. With the unicorn on the left, we imagine the doodler might have been Scottish.

What kind of animal do you think our mystery doodler drew on the back cover?

#magna carta #history of law #unicorn #unicorns #heraldry #coat of arms #doodle #16th century #england #scotland #united kingdom #magical creatures #umn law #riesenfeld center #rare books #old books #animals in books

[lordbettany]

𝕴𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖉 (2011) dir. Jonathan English

#i'll make this my pc background so we can stare st each other forever ♡♡♡ #MYPOSTS #my gifs #aneurin barnard #guy the squire #ironclad #period movie #historical fiction #king john #magna carta

[playstationgamemania]

#ps2 #magna carta #Magna Carta: Tears of Blood

[married-to-a-redhead]

It’s Magna Carta Day! In the 13th century, England was under the rule of King John. Many of his nobles were unhappy with the arbitrary way he led the country and a rebellion broke out. Simplistically, the Magna Carta was a peace treaty between King John and his nobles that attempted to codify the procedures by which the King ruled over his subjects. The main rights established by the Magna Carta are due process of law and the right to a fair trial by a jury of one’s peers.

The Magna Carta, along with the U.S. constitution, are two of the most important documents in history establishing the protection of individual natural rights and freedom. This is a day worth celebrating!

#Magna Carta day #Magna Carta #i love history #history

[usnatarchives]

Preservation Technician cleans a record while wearing a battery powered air-purifying respirator for protection. Decontamination Lab, National Archives at St. Louis, MO.

Conservators: Magicians of the Archives! November 4 is #AskAConservator Day! Our conservators will take over Twitter Nov. 4 to answer your burning questions about how we deal with mold, water and insect damage in order to preserve these records for generations to come! Ask questions & follow the hashtag to see who else is participating worldwide. 

See related National Archives News story: Fulbright Scholar Joins Heritage Science Lab and Tumblr post: We Welcome Cancy Chu - Our 1st Heritage Science Fulbright Scholar!

Check out our state-of-the-art labs! Lab at the National Archives, St. Louis, MO See this lab’s continuing work to save and reconstruct the records damaged in the 1973 fire. 

Magna Carta Conservation Treatment See NARA conservators use UV photography to reveal previously illegible writing on a 1297 Magna Carta (on loan from David M. Rubenstein).

Ultraviolet fluorescence photo of the 1297 Magna Carta parchment (before treatment) revealed obliterated text in damaged areas. Photo by Sarah Raithel. Related press release: National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta

Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archive Days after the Coalition forces took over Baghdad in 2003, American soldiers entered Saddam Hussein’s flooded intelligence building and found, under four feet of water, books and documents relating to the Jewish community of Iraq. Learn how these records were vacuum freeze-dried, preserved and digitized under the direction of the National Archives. View these records here.

Peek “behind the scenes” to see treatment of these records in the National Archives state-of-the-art Conservation Lab.

Due to mold, conservation staff wore gloves and masks, and worked under ventilation hoods whole working with records from the Iraqi Jewish Archive. 

Preserving Family Histories Paper conservator Annie Wilker repairs an 18th-century fraktur and demonstrates techniques used to preserve damaged documents.

More secrets revealed online!

What's a Conservator?

NARA Conservators Meet the Challenge Every Day, Prologue Magazine

Repairing Existing Damage to Family Papers and Photographs

Declaration of Independence - learn about the conservation treatment and re-encasement of the document.

Preserving the Dunlap Broadside 

#conservation #archives #jewish history #iraq #preservation #magna carta #nprc #military history #military records #family history #genealogy #askaconservator #declaration of independence #usnatarchives #heritage science

[valhallaimcomin]

Guy the Squire from Ironclad (2011). Mixed media on paper.

(My poor baby potato)

#aneurin barnard #ironclad #guy the Squire #period drama #historical fiction #king john #magna carta #fanart #period costume #richard iii #the white queen #daniel solace #1899 netflix

[sithvampiremaster27]

Prince John and the Magna Carta

#robin hood #disney robin hood #prince john #sir hiss #magna carta

[jackgoodfellow]

Breaking News: Another horrible man is horrible to literally everybody and is then shocked when people are not nice to him. England once again totally fucked. But I hear the monarchy is good for tourism, so

"Doomed by the narrative? Too easy! No... it is the narrative that is doomed by US! (And also, we are so so horny for each other.)"

So it turns out The Lion in Winter (1968) slaps. Katherine Hepburn somehow manages to capture the feeling of watching someone tear out a person's jugular with smiling teeth. She and Peter O'Toole in this movie are basically performing the cinematic equivalent of the song "No Children" by The Mountain Goats and it is wild.

Tagging @thirdsisfics because I associate the term "doomed by the narrative" with the positive feelings I get from talking to you about the trope!

#it is unclear to me at what point in history people think the English monarchy stopped solely churning out deeply broken entitled people #brits have SUCH a weird reverence for their monarchy but if you're existing outside of that propaganda they all look insane for it #must be like Americans and our military. where it only looks good from the inside and once you figure out how bad it is you're like #oh no. almost everyone I know believes it is socially unacceptable to criticize this institution. oh my god WE are the evil horde. #Peter O'Toole #Katherine Hepburn #Anthony Hopkins #the lion in winter #The Lion in Winter 1968 #old hollywood #alt-text #image description #see Jack talk #King Henry II #King Richard I #King John #Magna Carta #that feeling when your favorite son goes on to permanently limit the powers of the monarchy by doing such a bad job #I think what works best about this movie is even though it's all kings and queens and monarchy and history they all feel horrifyingly human #Henry is not that different from every other patriarch who has worked to ruin everyone in his life only to grow old and find he is #surrounded by people and so so alone #americans and brits are like 'yes our country definitely did horrible things in the past. even in very recent past. but that's changed now' #'not sure exactly when or what the turning point was but it DEFINITELY happened for SURE.' #the movie starts with Henry saying he intentionally raised his sons to be like this and then the rest of the movie is him like wait what #i didn't think leopards would eat MY face. says man who spent his life raising face-eating leopards. #and yet they're all still so deeply deeply sad and sympathetic. which is some good fucking acting. #shitposting #king lear #I recognize that my tags are me bouncing back and forth between movie commentary and slagging off the American Military #and i am not sorry. thank you for coming the speech I am giving on the sidewalk in front of a ted talk

[arcadebroke]

#Magna Carta #Magna Carta Tears of Blood #Atlus #PS2 #PlayStation 2 #art #design #print ad #rpg #jrpg #gaming #video games

[illustratus]

King John granting the Magna Carta at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England, 15 June 1215

by Ernest Normand

#king john #magna carta #art #ernest normand #england #runnymede #windsor #river thames #medieval #middle ages #history #barons #monarch #king #john #english #norman #earl of pembroke #robert fitzwalter #archbishop #stephen langton #cassell's history of england #knights #europe #european #royal #royalty #monarchy #liberty #tent

[beatsforbrothels]

Melanin 9 - White Russian (ft. Roc Marciano)

#Melanin 9 #m9 #white russian #roc marciano #magna carta #triple darkness

[princessofroses]

Royal Historical Misconceptions pt. 3

pt 1 here pt. 2 here

Mary was the Worst Tudor - This stems from her historical moniker 'Bloody Mary' which basically bashed Mary mercilessly despite the fact she killed less people throughout her reign than her father and sister alone. Some people may point out Jane Grey (The Queen Edward had selected as he practically disowned both his sisters) but Tudors don't mess with their crown. Henry VII killed Warwick, Henry VIII killed Margaret Pole, a quarter of the Boleyn Family, Catherine Howard, Edward Stafford and Hal Courtenay (along with a zillion others), and Lizzie killed Mary Stuart, Devereux and a Howard thrown in the mix, so why would Mary be different? The Grey family were out to claim her crown, and she was hesitant to even kill Jane and her raggedy ass husband, but the Grey's pretty much forced her hand. Out of all the Tudor monarchs, she'd be the fourth worst in morality.

Margaret of Anjou was a Good Queen - This partially stems from 21st century views that Margaret was good at being Regent due to her husband's (Henry VI) inability to rule (He probably had a mixture of Bipolar, BPD and Depression tbh). I see this sentiment repeated on Tumblr a lot, but Margaret was a walking disaster. England hated her, half the nobles hated her and even the ones that supported her (Richard Neville, aka the Kingsmaker) generally had a stormy relationship with her because Margaret was dumb and it definitely showed through her son who was even dumber than her. After the Lancastrians were deposed, she took her son to Scotland, which is pretty counterproductive considering there isn't much the Scots can do and they definitely don't wanna get involved with England as they have their own problems. The most they could get is a pat on the back of support from Mary of Guelders and some shelter before they inevitably had to return to England. The only smart people during the War of the Roses were Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII of England, Elizabeth Woodville, Jasper Tudor and Richard Neville.

Richard the Lionheart was a Great King - Of what? He was a good Duke of Aquitaine, but he barely ever spent time in England (So much so that, his wife, Berenguela of Navarre, never was able to step foot in England) he was reckless, wasted a lot of money on not just crusades, but trying to take Cyprus and he sorta messed England up very slowly, but it was not apparent until King John came along. Blame 'Bad King John' for the Magna Carta all you want, but if Richard wasn't such a stupid war-monger that after his death, John had to clean up all of his shit, then half the problems during John's reign would not have happened. John was blamed for being the scheming one, but he was the result of a family war. His parents were crazy and his brothers were idiots and his sisters were married abroad, John just had to find a way to survive the mess he was in.

#John Lackland #plantagenets #war of the roses #richard the lionheart #magna carta #margaret of anjou #lancaster #mary tudor #tudor history #european history #english history #royal history #feel free to ask questions

[northern-punk-lad]

So northern Barrons hated king John and wanted a stricter version of Magna Carta that would have limited the monarchs power more

#England #north England #Magna Carta

[jet-grind]

#magna carta #playstation 2

[usnatarchives]

This adorable turkey is made from tools used in our conservation lab!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We’re thankful to have the tools to preserve and make your history accessible to you! 

This delightful “tool turkey” was created by Sara Holmes, a conservator with Preservation Programs at the National Archives in St. Louis.

The feathers are made of bone folders (used to smooth out creases), microspatulas (used to remove many, many staples and other fasteners), and several types of palette knives (used as lifters, such as for removing tape).

The body is a horn folder (similar to the bone folders), wattle and eyes are made of binders' tape (used in book repair), the beak is a small piece of foamed eraser (used to clean paper, including removing mold from the surface of paper), and the feet are tweezers (used in mending to hold small fragments as well as to hold tissue used to make the mend repairs)..

Peek inside our amazing Heritage Science Lab!

Learn more about our Conservation Lab!

See also:

We Welcome Cancy Chu - Our 1st Fulbright Scholar!

Conservators: Magicians of the Archives!

Preservation Lab at the National Archives, St. Louis - see ongoing work to save and reconstruct the records damaged by fire.  

1297 Magna Carta Conservation - UV photography reveals previously illegible writing! (on loan from David M. Rubenstein).

What's a Conservator?

NARA Conservators Meet the Challenge Every Day, Prologue Magazine.

National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta.

Repairing Existing Damage to Family Papers and Photographs.

Declaration of Independence - learn about the conservation treatment and re-encasement of the document.

Preserving the Dunlap Broadside .

#archives #thanksgiving #turkey #conservation #preservation #tweezers #horn #palette knives #bonefolder #declaration #national treasure #magna carta