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Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy / eds. Claire Breay, Julian Harrison
Review Date: 26 March 2015
The funniest moment in the British Library’s wonderful Magna Carta: Law Liberty, Legacy exhibition comes towards its end, in a recent cartoon by Stephen Collins (sadly not reproduced in the excellent catalogue, but available here). We observe, Attenborough-style, a group of adolescents being filmed in a bleak urban playground.
Handbuch der europäischen Verfassungsgeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert / eds. Werner Daum, Peter Brandt, Martin Kirsch, Arthur Schlegelmilch
Review Date: 30 May 2013
Six years after the publication of the first volume of the Handbook of Nineteenth-Century European Constitutional History (1), the long-awaited second has appeared. While the first ranged from around 1770 to 1815 over 1224 pages, its successor covers the time between the Congress of Vienna (1814/1815) and the Revolutions of 1848 using 1504 pages.