Category: Australian::Australian History. Language: English. EAN: 9781742292939. On permanent display in Australia's Parliament House in Canberra is one of only two thirteenth-century copies of Magna Carta outside England. The other copy, now in the National Archives in Washington, DC, was sold at auction in 2007 for US$21.3 million. Both are copies of the 1297 Inspeximus version, re-issued by Edward I's council in his name while he was campaigning in Flanders. This booklet tells the story of how Australia came to have its copy of Magna Carta. It was discovered at a school in Somerset in the 1930s and sold to the Australian Government in 1952 - in the face of vigorous opposition from the British Museum.

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BZDB43 Australian::Australian History; Australia; Australian History; Unbranded EAN: 9781742292939 Department of the Senate Australia's Magna Carta