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Philippa Langley spoke at The Oldie Literary Lunch in London at the iconic Liberal Club in Whitehall on 15 July. There were three speakers on the day, all speaking after lunch, and they had ten minutes each. The other speakers with her were author and historian, Lucy Moore and author and TV presenter, David Hepworth.…
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Sorry this is too late to attend, but it sounds as if it would have been very dramatic… “….Dartmouth Castle will once again serve as a striking backdrop for open-air theatre as The Inn Theatre Company stages its summer production of Richard III . The company is performing one of Shakespeare’s history plays for the first time,…
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After five years of work and expenditure of £27.5m, Norwich Castle has been restored to its original state of 900 years ago, and reopens on Sunday, 24 August. That evening there’s a documentary on Channel Four at 7.30 p.m. If you missed it it is available on 4 for a couple of weeks. To read…
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Following Philippa Langley’s successful visit to Malvern a few weeks ago, the Malvern Community Partnership has arranged a coach trip to St Matthew’s Church, Coldridge in Devon on Thursday, 25 September. Those who are interested in the history of Richard III and the “Princes in the Tower” will want to see the all-important stained-glass window…
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If you go to this link https://tinyurl.com/5y5j2fwy you’ll read that after a number of failed negotiations in the past, Britain is at last to be entrusted with the Bayeux Tapestry. Not for good—Heaven forfend!—but on loan, and in return we are lending France the wonderful Sutton Hoo treasures. (Can they be trusted with our treasures,…
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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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Apparently, according to Copinger’s Manors of Suffolk, Richard of Gloucester, who later became Richard III, was Lord of the Manor of Lavenham from 1473 until his death in 1485. He may possibly have been made Lord of the Manors of Lavenham on the execution of the 12th Earl of Oxford in 1462, but have then…
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This is the eighth You Tube video that the Richard III Society has posted, debunking some of the myths regarding Richard. They are quite short, between five and just over ten minutes long. This is the eighth one:
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Archaeology Today reports that the remains of St Leonard’s, a medieval hospital, have been discovered while repairing a sink hole in York. It dates from the 12th or 13th centuries and wasn’t destroyed until H8 got his hands on it during the Reformation, so Richard III would certainly have known of it. Read more about…
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