By any reckoning, Sir Isaac Newton is one of the towering geniuses of science. Active across an astounding range of disciplines, somehow he also found time to be an MP, Master of the Royal Mint and a magistrate. Yet to what extent was the fullest flowering of this driven man’s mind only possible in a particular set of circumstances? Was there something about the England of his day that made it particularly fertile ground for intellectual enquiry? Watch Magna Carta Unlocked to see the debt that modern science owes to the legacy of Magna Carta.