archaeology
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If you go to this link https://tinyurl.com/5y5j2fwy you’ll read that after a number of failed negotiations in the past, Britain is at last to be entrusted with the Bayeux Tapestry. Not for good—Heaven forfend!—but on loan, and in return we are lending France the wonderful Sutton Hoo treasures. (Can they be trusted with our treasures,…
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A short while ago (June 2025) I wrote that the wonderful Philippa Langley was coming to Malvern to give talks as part of the annual Midsummer Malvern event. Well, now she has been and if you go to this link you can read all about it: https://tinyurl.com/2p9jzkz2 The first talk was at Little Malvern Priory,…
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Archaeology Today reports that the remains of St Leonard’s, a medieval hospital, have been discovered while repairing a sink hole in York. It dates from the 12th or 13th centuries and wasn’t destroyed until H8 got his hands on it during the Reformation, so Richard III would certainly have known of it. Read more about…
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Salisbury Museum’s annual Festival of Archaeology will be held on July 26 and 27. But as an opener to the proceedings, on Thursday, July 24 at 7.30pm at the Salisbury Methodist Church on St Edmund’s Church Street, Dr Turi King will give a talk titled ‘DNA Detective: Using DNA to Uncover the Secrets of our…
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Here is the third in our series of interviews with notable people associated with King Richard III. Philippa Langley is an historian, author, award-winning producer and Ricardian, who is best known for her discovery of Richard III in 2012 through her original Looking For Richard Project, for which she was awarded an MBE. Joanne Larner:…
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“The Pretender” takes the same-old attitude to Richard III….
Oh dear… “….The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III [who has murdered the boys in the Tower] is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan [to be Lambert Simnel, the…
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See “King Richard III” give a talk in Stamford, Lincolnshire….
There is a wonderful 550-year-old hospital in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and it is there due to the 1475 generosity of wealthy wool merchant William Browne and his wife. It was granted a charter by Richard III, not long before the king’s tragic death at the Battle of Bosworth. “….British Museum curator Dr Gareth Williams is helping…
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While it’s fascinating to learn about the well-known photograph of Richard’s remains (see above) it’s also dismally evident that the university is still hogging the limelight (pun intended) where his discovery is concerned, see the video at https://tinyurl.com/ycxv44ds. Not one mention of Philippa Langley, the Richard III Society or any other “outsider”. It’s all the…
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Click here for article The above link takes you to the whole story. It concerns King Harold II aka Harold Godwinson, my other favourite king, who had a lot in common with his descendant, Richard (see my previous post regarding this). They appear to have located the home of the king, often suspected of being…
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I’ve just watched a rather unusual TV programme on Sky History channel. It was presented by Omid Djalili and he explored the Battle of Bosworth with the help of various experts and also two psychics! At first I was sceptical. I am open-minded when it comes to the paranormal (I have had some pretty strange…
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