The history behind the design
We Are Waking is a Magna Carta t-shirt about how the charter's ideas kept coming back to life, generation after generation.
Magna Carta began as a peace treaty between King John and his rebel barons in June 1215, but its ideas kept waking up in later generations. It was reissued in 1216, 1217 and 1225, confirmed again by Edward I in 1297, and rediscovered in the 1600s by lawyers such as Sir Edward Coke, who used it to argue that the king was bound by the law.
We Are Waking is about that habit of each generation going back to the sources and learning its own rights for itself.