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@plus.net wrote:
Hi all,
An article in this weeks observer (see http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-an... ) 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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