Hi Rod,
That was indeed me... we did do a bit of work with the BL MSS
department (the great work was done before I came, though - John Byrne
and his work on the Cuthbert Gospel). I think I could probably
persuade someone to do a review and feedback, especially if we've done
a chunk of the reworking before then.
Someone looked at the MC article some years ago with a view to
reworking it - there's some detailed notes in Archive 2 which seem to
be the discussion I remember. There appears to be a lot of tension
between "MC as historic event/artifact", "MC as legal history", and
"MC as living law", all of which are dealt with in the article but may
not sit comfortably against each other.
A.
On 5 November 2014 11:04, Rod Ward <rodward(a)plus.net> wrote:
Hi all,
An article in this weeks observer (see
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-a…
) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the
Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV
and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date.
I note this article (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta ) regularly
gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was
listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and
has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for
Society and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to get it to at least GA
or even FA standard before the anniversary – any help would be appreciated.
The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some sort
of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with the
British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a
contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or
similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development of
this important article?
Rod
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