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Humanising the acts of the past is one of David Starkey's greatest strengths. And here he is on fine form. This is a tight, punchy narrative of the revolt that produced the charter. Starkey supplies pen portraits of the men who made the Magna Carta. But more than anything he manages to bring alive the texts that survive from 1215.This is a soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta, a document of transcendent historical importance in the English-speaking world. It is a reminder that, when Starkey flexes his historical muscles, he is a mighty impressive scholar. And his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining. Dan Jones, author of Magna Carta: The Making And Legacy Of The Great Charter,

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David Starkey is an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of Elizabeth, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, and Henry: Virtuous Prince. He is a winner of the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History and of the WH Smith Prize. He is well-known for his historical television series focusing on the Tudors, monarchy, and Britain, and for his frequent radio appearances. Starkey was made a CBE in 2007 and lives in London.

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