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by Maria Grazia Lucrezia Leotta I walked alone in the silence of my inner thoughts and touched the ancient castle’s walls. I heard the sound of my own footsteps echoing in the shadow of the Prince’s Tower. Laughs, voices, joy and grief, a child’s wooden sword, hooves on pebbles, rosemary and lily, grass and rose.…
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Joanne Larner: Please would you provide a short introduction for those who don’t know you. Andrew Jamieson: My name is Andrew Jamieson and for over 40 years I have been a fully trained and qualified painter of heraldry, calligrapher and traditional manuscript illuminator. In 2023 His Majesty the King asked me to design and paint…
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…the online edition of the Edward IV Coronation Roll (Free Library MS Lewis E201), after three years’ work. It is now fully interactive – with transcriptions, translations and annotations. They say: In the turbulent fifteenth century, rival claimants to the English throne presented their cases in elaborate genealogical rolls. One of the most colorful and…
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On Saturday afternoon we were treated to a fantastically interesting talk by Professor Caroline Wilkinson, she who had created the reconstruction of Richard’s head. It was the Isolde Wigram Memorial Lecture and she touched on the reconstruction but concentrated on the A Voice for Richard project, which she participated in. She described all the detailed…
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Many Ricardians know that there are just two churches in the world dedicated to St Alkelda, one is in Middleham and the other in Giggleswick, but very few are aware of a mysterious stained glass in the latter. The whole matter started with a parish fair. Parishioners from both churches were looking for items to…
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I’ve had the honour of reviewing and contributing to some of the Legendary Ten Seconds’ past output, and am delighted to have the chance to share my thoughts on this new album, which is entitled Ricardian Churchward. As Ian “Ricardian” Churchward’s lyrics relate in the opening track of his latest compilation, he writes and sings…
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I confess to not knowing much about Andrew Slade before reading this article—https://shorturl.at/Zcc6T—but quite clearly he is an acting force to be reckoned with. And as he not only starred in this play about Richard III, but also wrote it, he is a great adornment to the world of theatre. The object of Andrew’s play…
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Here is the latest news from A Taste of Loyalty, who are crowdfunding to produce a short film based on Matthew Lewis’s novel ‘Loyalty’. This will be a taster and they are hoping it will raise enough interest for them to finally create a full-length film of Richard III’s life. Here is their latest news:…
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I happened to see a link to an article titled as above and thought it looked interesting. At first, I was appalled by the introduction, which included the following: ….His reputation has taken a number of beatings over the centuries due to a series of unfortunate incidents in which he played a central role. The…
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A story by Rod Minchin of the Independent says: Rare medieval music, discovered within a 15th-century book, will resonate through Buckland Abbey in Devon this August, bringing the sound of monks back for the first time in 500 years. The “plaintive” melodies will be performed to mark the book’s return to the abbey, a place…
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