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There is a free exhibition "Magna Carta - through the ages" on at the moment until July where you can see three authentic copies, albeit different versions through the times, of the Magna Carta, one from Peterborough 'The black book' , one from Halesowen Abbey which is in scroll form than book, and the last called the "Hart book of Statutes" which contains a copy of Henry III Magna Carta as well as developed legislation from that time. The Peterborough version "The Black Book" Its actually correct to call it Magna Carta and not The Magna carta as it's given its name in Latin, a language which has no direct, consistent correlate of the English definite article "the". As a result, the usual academic convention is to refer to the document in English without the article as "Magna Carta" rather than " the Magna Carta'. Halesowen Magna Carta Scroll, and John next to it. (Not King) You are warmly greete...

Conscientious Objectors commemoration stone, Tavistock Sq, London (All Pic Hina Pandya Copyright res) Friday was a really busy day for me, but not so busy that I didn't spare a thought for the conscientious objectors that declined to fight in the war. In war sometimes people were conscripted, it wasn't a choice to go and fight, you were required to 'do what was right' for your country... Of course the men who declined to fight were ridiculed and looked down upon, many saw their choice as pure cowardice, and the term 'white feather' was used to describe such men in WW1 and WW2. Little white tags say the names of the objectors Some might say their refusal to go to war, to kill another person has such humanity in it, so much hope. So in the midst all of all the recent celebrations we've had of the fallen on Victory day and Liberation day it seemed fitting that I visited the 'conscientious objectors' memorial in Tavistock Square, which also...