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from: Visit Linconshire
www.visitlincolnshire.com
Source: Mark Hibbert
Published: July, 2007

ABOVE: Lincolon Cathedral. INSET BELOW: An up-close view of the Magna Carta.

Journey back to the home of Lincoln Cathedral’s Magna Carta

LINCOLN, ENGLAND - This summer, one of only four original existing copies of England’s Magna Carta has been wowing crowds at the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia, USA. Dubbed "The Great Charter of Liberty,", the Magna Carta sealed by King John in 1215 is universally accepted as the foundation of modern constitutional law and offered guiding principles to new democracies across the world.

But now that "Magna Carta: Foundation of Freedom" has finishes its run in Philadelphia, this rare document’s fascinating story will be celebrated back in its historic home city of Lincoln in East England.

Lincoln Cathedral's Magna Carta has been in the USA before, to the New York World Fair in 1939 where it became a sensation as people queued to see the parchment. However, within months Britain joined World War II and it was deemed safer for it to remain in America until the end of hostilities, so it was stored away in Fort Knox - next to the original copy of the American Constitution.

Four hundred years of American history has its roots in English soil and East England offers a traveler map linking US connections right across the region on website www.beginyouradventure.co.uk,  which also has vacation itinerary ideas and details of tour operators.

Visitors can mark historic US connections, including the founding of Jamestown in Virginia 400 years ago this year, by taking a journey of discovery through England from Lincolnshire in the north to Kent in the south to learn more about the birth of a nation.

More details about Lincolnshire and the Magna Carta, normally on view at Lincoln Castle which is where its contents were first read to the people of Lincolnshire in 1215, can be found on www.visitlincolnshire.com.

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