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By Susan Lamb It was a bright Saturday morning and the Richard III Society was totally buzzing with excitement. It hadn’t seen this much excitement since Richard’s new wig in the museum. But today was the launch of a brand‑new apple variety, grown right there in Leicester, named after our good king Richard III. It…
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A lot of you may already have twigged that I enjoy the Country Life magazine articles about historic properties throughout the UK, and this https://tinyurl.com/3wdz2rzh (written by Toby Keel) is one of them. We all like to dream about living in a Home with History, but very few of us manage to achieve the dream. I’ll never…
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We all know by now that the usurper Henry Tudor, aka Henry VII, was born in Pembroke. The town even boasts a statue of him. Not that he ever did much for the Welsh. He was entirely self-seeking, and had his diminutive mother cracking the whip behind him. Well, we always imagine her being the…
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Here (https://tinyurl.com/mrynu37) is a beautifully illustrated history of 700-year-old Warwick Castle, courtesy of the magazine Country Life, which can be relied upon to produce magnificent articles. The story of this amazing stronghold begins with William the Conqueror in 1068, and passed on through an awesome list of monarchs: William Rufus, Henry I, Henry II, Henry…
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“….Work to replace a cracked glazed panel that covers the original burial site of King Richard III [got] under way on Wednesday (8 July)….The king’s grave – formerly located in the choir of the long-gone Greyfriars Priory – is now part of Leicester’s award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre and has been glazed over since…
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It was a blisteringly hot summer day — the kind that made even the cathedral’s cool stone feel faintly warm to the touch. The vicar sat slumped in a pew, his collar limp, fanning himself weakly with a service sheet. Around him, several electric fans whirred in a tired, half‑hearted way. Richard drifted over, frowning…
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Well the claim in the title above must be true, because it says so on this YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkJ4M0Mx4M. 🙄 Boo! Hiss! So here’s more about the first Lancastrian Henry to usurp the throne of a rightful King Richard. We’re talking Bolingbroke, a.k.a. Henry IV, right? Not a long video, doesn’t reach 2 minutes, but,…
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“….A 14th Century church has been saved from closure after the discovery of a ‘miracle’ hoard of gold coins worth nearly £30,000 found hidden under the altar….” Hallelujah (some might say! 😇). St Wilfrid’s Church, Melling in Lancashire has been saved from closure by the discovery of a £30,000 hoard of gold coins hidden under…
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At 1½ minutes the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6LeKcR7qU isn’t very long, but if you can stand the loud, brash commentary (and the repetition of old fallacies), the actual point about the Speed map of Leicester is interesting. Did John Speed make a boo-boo and mistake Blackfriars for Greyfriars, leading to subsequent historians and archaeologists wasting time…
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