Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 5th December 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Lecture theatre, Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW (cars enter through Erleigh Rd entrance - contact Chris Sexton for the gate code)

Description: In this talk David Carpenter explains why the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta is 2025, and not 2015. He traces successive editions of the Charter between 1215 and 1225 and explains how the 1225 version had new and special qualities that ensured its survival.

How to book: Branch suppers precede each lecture from 6pm (cost £20 per person) and are held in the school’s refectory.

Price: HA members, students and school pupils free. Non-members visitors £3. Associate branch membership £10 per annum.

Tel: 01344 779321 or 07957 184342

Email: sexton44@gmail.com

Organiser: Chris Sexton

Lecturer: Professor David Carpenter (Kings College, London)

Region: South-East England

Branch: Reading