Alternative History
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Recently, it was revealed that twenty eminent Ricardians voted on their favourite fiction and non-fiction books. Here, we look at some of the fiction books and we’ll examine the non-fiction ones in a future post. As you might expect, the number one Ricardian fiction book was Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, the book responsible…
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For those of us interested in/intrigued by the mystery at Coldridge, there is to be a talk about the church and its history on Saturday, March 21 between 10am and 4pm. Tickets at £10 each. The mystery is, of course, whether the older of the two Princes in the Tower, known as Edward V, was…
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Dan Snow is always a contentious subject for Ricardians, but in this video (https://tinyurl.com/3e4zpxr3) he deals with “….cinematic portrayals of the kings and queens of England and Britain….” so it’s the films he’s commenting on. But I have to say that I couldn’t really find fault with his narrative. However, the video is (a) infuriating…
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I’m writing this after reading the article at https://tinyurl.com/yceukwsm. Oh dear, oh dear. Try this for size: “….the show traces the life of Margaret of Anjou from when she is 15 years old and a prisoner of the Marquess of Suffolk until she returns to England at 50 to announce the end of Richard III’s…
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10+ misunderstood historical figures, including Richard III….
Well, if there’s a list of historical figures on-line, you can be virtually certain that Richard III will crop up somewhere….usually as the bad guy. Well, thanks to Henry VII, Thomas More, John Morton, Shakespeare and just about any dumb historian since then. If ever there was a flock of sheep, historians of Richard III…
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“….Richard II is one of the Bard’s history plays, the others being Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V….” (From https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-weekend-witness-south-africa-9we6/20250726/281646786186296) Wot, no Richard III! 😮And this glaring omission when heading the given list of leading actors in these plays is Benedict Cumberbatch, who played—ta-ra!—Richard III! Well, the Pressreader writer of…
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Richard III and the Peasants’ Revolt….?
The Rage, a movie drama by Paul Greengrass, about the Peasants’ Revolt in 14th-century England, has received the maximum £2m grant from the regional Bavaria fund FFF Bayern “….and will begin filming in Germany this autumn as a Germany-UK co-production between Munich-based Supernix and London outfit Electric Shadow Company….” Filming will be in Bavaria, but…
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Oh, lawks, now the Bard’s Richard III is a pirate! Whatever next? I suppose no one has yet had him arrive on stage in a UFO. Have they? Must check….because maybe I can sell the idea to some ambitious avant-garde director. 😄 Unfortunately, according to the Tanks website, (Cairns, Queensland, Australia) this seafaring event has…
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The usual old twaddle about Richard III….
The quoted paragraphs below are actually from an article about US politics (https://tinyurl.com/ruw9zrnj), and they are a masterclass in how to twist (medieval) history from this side of the Atlantic. I make no comment about US politics, but I do regard these paragraphs as bumf. For those who aren’t familiar with the word, it’s used…
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Well, I think Dan Jones has now lost all credibility as a serious historian. Why? Because of the new “comedy” series Sex: A Bonkers History in which he stars with Amanda Holden. The trailer, which might as well be for a Carry On film, is forever popping up on my TV screen, and he is…
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