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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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I know there are always lists of this and that, and a compilation of important battles pops up from time to time. On this occasion, however, when Bosworth is dealt with, it’s an objective assessment, and worth reading. You’ll find it on History Today.
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I had heard the rumour of the Queen’s descent from “Dracula” (Vlad III Tepes), through the Teck line, before and this picture from Pinterest gives an outline of quadruple descent, although the text is in Romanian and not every generation is detailed. How reliable is it? What we know is that Vlad was born between…
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The old myth about Richard striking his heel against Bow Bridge on his way to Bosworth, and then his head on the same place when being carried ignominiously back to Leicester after the battle, is very well known indeed. As is the supposed prediction of this sequence of events by an old woman in the…
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Having seen this article in a recent Daily Mail Weekend magazine, as a feature on the television page about Ralph Fiennes, his acting/ directing family and his explorer cousin Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, I have now tested the genealogical claims within. As you can see, it would have been more precise to claim James IV as…
