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Just like buses …

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… you wait over a year for a new book from John Ashdown-Hill and two turn up almost together: Cecily Neville (left) on 30 April and those “Princes” on 15 July, with another volume on Elizabeth Wydeville to follow …

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  1. Cecily Neville | murreyandblue

    […] we mentioned here, Ashdown-Hill’s biography of Richard’s mother was published in April. Whilst his […]

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  2. Does someone not understand science? | murreyandblue

    […] as pp. xii-xvi of Ashdown-Hill’s Cecily Neville explain, citing heraldic evidence, the “forked beard” portrait below, said to be of Richard […]

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  3. Coming up soon … | murreyandblue

    […] is the front cover of the next book, about Edward IV’s chief mistress, from Britain’s busiest historian , to be published by Pen and Sword on 31 July. I wonder which surprises he will have for us this […]

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  4. Did Elizabeth Wydville die of the plague….? | murreyandblue

    […] all know that on 8th June, 1492, Elizabeth Woodville died in relative obscurity in Bermondsey Abbey, and it has been imagined that she died a natural […]

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