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After we left Moyse’s Hall Museum, we wanted to visit St Mary’s Church, as we knew there was a wedding going on at the Cathedral. However, when we arrived, the church was closed a s a service was going on for the WI. By this time the bells of the Cathedral were ringing indicating the…
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It is always a pleasure to visit the sumptuous J. Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library located in the Murray Hill section of New York City. Built in 1906, designed by the esteemed architectural firm of McKim, Meade and White, it is breathtakingly beautiful as well as a unique source of medieval riches, housing one of the smallest…
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English Costume from William I to George IV by Dion Clayton Calthrop, published 1937. I have just received this book, and of course turned immediately to the reign of Richard III. Dismay promptly ensued. Hump-backed Richard! Oh, natch. Then: “The axe of the executioner soiled many white shirts, and dreadful forebodings fluttered the dovecots of…
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http://www.bfdc.co.uk/2015/souvenir_covers/richard_iii_mounted_on_horse.html
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I draw attention to the blog at http://thedragonhound.com/2015/…/20/anne-nevilles-portraits/ It is not mine, I hasten to say, although I wish it were. It contains not only possible portraits of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel and various other prominent ladies of Edward IV’s court, but also likenesses that may well be Richard and George. Maybe even Buckingham standing…
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In 1921, a manuscript dating to the late 15th or early 16th century was donated to the National Library of Wales. It was a “passional”, a book recounting the sufferings of saints and martyrs, and containted 2 texts in medieval French: “La Passion de Nostre Seigneur” (The Passion of Our Lord), an account of the…
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Here is an interesting article about the various alterations that have been made to Richard’s portraits. No, not the alterations of which I have been guilty, but the sneakier “Tudor” activities to blacken Richard’s character and appearance. The article is from 2009, with the then knowledge of whether or not Richard was the monster as…
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Another twiddle of a famous portrait of Richard III, this time the one held by the Society of Antiquaries. I tweaked it before, to give him a little smile rather than the scowl in the original, but now I have gone to work a little more. To me, the original portrait looks as if his…
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I recently posted a picture I’d made of Henry “Harry” Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, armoured and mounted, being thwarted by the flooded River Severn, and thus unable to complete whatever his intention was in the autumn of 1483. We all know he wanted to crowbar his cousin, Richard III, from the throne, but to…
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An excellent blog from Josephine Josepha Wilkinson: http://josepha-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/religious-and-personal-symbolism-in.html?spref=fb
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