Magna Carta Resource Pack

Hello Magna Carta-ers!

Ok, it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but give it time. ‘Directioners’ probably sounded a bit silly at first.

We hope you had a brilliant Easter break and didn’t miss these blog posts too much. Realistically we were never going to maintain our initial rate of a post a day, but hopefully you were too busy eating chocolate to notice. Did you know that the right to eat as many Easter eggs as you want without feeling guilty was one of the original clauses in the Magna Carta?*

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Anyway, enough of that, this is another exciting post. In addition to writing this super modern blog, last month we also went a bit old skool and produced a special Magna Carta Resource Pack. Richard Huggins, our Principal Lecturer in Politics and Sociology, led on this and it’s pretty brilliant. To be fair we knew it would be, as Richard has a great beard and an even greater knowledge of the Magna Carta.

The pack consists of a workbook and seven worksheets and its aim is to provide young people with an introduction both to the Magna Carta and its relevance to important issues in the world today. In some ways it’s been written more for teachers to help them with planning lessons about the Magna Carta, and we have sent copies in the post to schools and colleges across Oxfordshire, but maybe you want to check it out yourself. Because you’re not from Oxfordshire. Or you want to make sure your teacher’s got a copy. Or you’re just a maverick.

So good news, you can download both the workbook and the worksheets here (under the Magna Carta Resource Pack bit): www.brookes.ac.uk/magnacarta

We hope you enjoy it and as ever feel free to get in touch at magnacarta2015@brookes.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Happy reading!

The Oxford Brookes Magna Carta Team

*It wasn't, but it totally should have been.