armour
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Dan Snow video on some of our kings and queens, including Richard III….
Dan Snow may be a popular historian, always on TV, always praised and admired, but he seldom comes in for any thumbs-up from Ricardians. Well, like most of today’s TV-historians, he’s pro-Tudor. And that, folks, means putting their Rosa Klebb boots into Richard III. So when this link https://shorturl.at/nlCnD turned up and I saw it…
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This post is to draw attention to an illustrated talk by the excellent Dr Toby Capwell, who famously rode in full armour in Richard III’s 2015 reinterment procession. It is definitely something to which to look forward. The talk is called The Scoliotic Knight: Reconstructing the real Richard III and as the title suggests concerns…
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This is an interesting, new collection of stamps depicting the armour of several different kings. As there is hardly any surviving armour from Richard’s period, he doesn’t feature, but the Tudors will be pleased – there are a few of Henry the VIIIth’s and one is most peculiar. Perhaps those in the know can tell…
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When I was in Leicester for the re-interment I was lucky enough to be able to attend a lecture by the armour expert, Richard Knox, and Dominic Smee, Richard’s body double. As an osteopath I was interested in some of the information Dominic gave about that and this included the height of Richard and how…
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