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The above illustration is take from this site, which is not only about this startling news, but also displays the wonderful reconstruction above. Here are the opening paragraphs of the article:- “….THE undiscovered body of a 15th-century nobleman could secure the future of a historic village church. “….The final resting place of Francis Lovell, a…
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Astley Castle and church..photo taken 1976. Courtesy of Will Roe, Nuneaton Memories. Astley Castle, Warwickshire, was the marital home of Sir John and Elizabeth Grey nee Wydeville. Sir John often comes across as a shadowy figure, outshone in eminence by his wife, and later widow, who went on to catch the eye of a king. This…
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Matthew Lewis on YouTube: 1) More
“Princes”, “withered arm”, allegory, Arthur “Tudor”, Calais, council meeting, David Starkey, Dighton, Edmund de la Pole, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy, Henry VI, Henry VII, illegitimacy, Lady Eleanor Talbot, London Guildhall, Mancini, Miles Forest, More, Morton, pre-contract, Richard III, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Stanley, Tower of London, Tyrrell “confession”I’ve decided to have a little go at some YouTube stuff. My first foray is a breakdown of my Top 10 problems with Sir Thomas More’s story of Richard III. It’s so full of problems that I’m left dismayed that academic historians I speak to still insist on relying on More’s evidence even today. There…
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I have just watched an episode of Digging for Britain (2014, series 3, episode 3, entitled “North”) in which Alice Roberts presented a section about an archaeological dig that had at that time been going on for five years at a large 15th-century hall owned by Sir John Conyers. Sir John had served both Edward…
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Distant Echoes: Richard III Speaks! by Joanne R. Larner In the time following the discovery, beneath a Leicester parking lot, of the remains of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, the medieval monarch has indeed gained a wider audience as we learn more details of the find. For example, it was…
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The Inspirational Borders and Lothians
A History of Scotland, Alexander III, borders, Borders Railway, Borders towns, David Hume, Donald Bain, Douglas Haig, Dukes of Roxburghe, Earls of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edith of Scotland, Floors Castle, guns, Henry I, Holyrood Palace, Honours of Scotland, Hume statue, James II holly, James V, James VII/II, Jedburgh, Jedburgh Abbey, Kelso, Leith, Malcolm III, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Queen of Scots’ House, Melrose, Melrose Abbey, Melrose RFC, Neil Oliver, North Bridge, Ocean Terminal, Princes Street, rebellions, Richard III, River Tweed, Ronnie Corbett, Roxburgh Castle, Royal Mile, Royal Yacht Britannia, rugby clubs, Scotland, Scott Memorial, Scott’s View, Scottish campaign 1482, siege of Roxburgh, Sir Walter Scott, Skirmish Hill, St. Giles’ Cathedral, St. Margaret of Wessex, St. Margaret’s Chapel, Thirlstane, Tweedbank Station, Waverley Station, whiskyvia The Inspirational Borders and Lothians
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And here it is, folks. Proof at last. We are told by some that apparently Henry “Tudor” really, really wanted to fling himself into the fray at Bosworth (instead of lurking behind his bodyguard), and here finally is the proof of that intent. Henry, waving his trusty sword Cash-Bringer in defiance of the foe, spurs…
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Yes, of course the Tudors dismissed the fact that Eleanor Talbot (Butler) was Edward IV’s first wife. Well, only wife, as it happens, because she was still alive when he “married” Elizabeth Woodville, whom he never did wed legally. In law, she was little more than a glorified mistress, and as a consequence, all the…
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