Magna Carta 800

Sir Robert Worcester, Chairman of the Magna Carta 800^th anniversary Committee, told FPA members that commemorations were going on across the Commonwealth especially in India, Australia and the West Indies, as well as elsewhere in the world. He outlined the main events of 2015 which include an exhibition at the British Library and international conferences in the United States and Eastern Europe.

Sir Robert Worcester

Magna Carta had resonance outside Great Britain and the English-speaking world. It was Britain’s greatest export and Sir Robert said he was proud that he himself had first seen the Lincoln Magna Carta at an exhibition in New York in 1940 at the age of seven. 

Sir Robert Worcester and FPA President Paola Totaro