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I’m writing this because of the article you’ll find at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/5vrc3c6z. Yet again there is a certain economy with the truth where Richard II is concerned. Because of this, we may not know much about Wat Tyler, one of the leaders of the so-called Peasants’ Revolt, but we sure as heck know…
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No, I’m not talking about the World Cup but something even more exciting! The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time in almost a millennium – and the ancient artefact will be the centrepiece of what is anticipated to be the British Museum’s most popular exhibition ever. Possibly created as a…
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The wonderful Richard III Middleham Festival is now approaching! The Yorkshire Branch is hosting all presentations on Saturday 4th July and tickets are still available for seats in Richard’s Collegiate Church of St Mary & St Alkelda. See poster below: All the presentations are ticketed and tickets may be obtained electronically from rgm@dockroyd.co.uk. The Richard III Society…
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Ian Churchward’s Blog 24th May 2026 On Monday afternoon The Legendary Ten Seconds played a set of Ricardian songs at Waldon Point, St Luke’s Road South in Torquay. I sang and played the guitar, Elaine sang and Lord Zarquon played his Memotron keyboard. Elaine sang the lead vocals on King in the Car Park…
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The Murrey and Blue blog has a new achievement – we have now had views from over fifty different countries! Amazing! So thank you all for contributing to our success. We couldn’t do it without you!
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By Susan Lamb Richard was feeling very bored and restless. A medieval ghost-king in a cathedral is never a good thing, especially when he’s bored. The congregation left their coats and hats neatly on the pews while they were rehearsing songs for an event in the local home for the bewildered and lost. Richard drifted…
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Reblogged from Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill House can be glimpsed in the background. Artist John Charles Eccardt c.1755. Horace/Horatio Walpole (1717-97), 5th Earl of Orford (not to be confused with Oxford), MP, Author, Historian, Antiquarian and Connoisseur, is numbered among the earliest defenders of King Richard III. His father was Sir Robert…
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© Annette Carson, 2026 In January 1486 Henry VII decided to repeal Richard III’s Act of Succession, Titulus Regius. The repeal had no legal effect, as I have argued in my paper ‘Investigating Henry VII’s Repeal of Titulus Regius’: this is because Richard had already been king for six months before the confirmatory Act came…
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I’m afraid that to my mind Thomas Arundel was a very unpleasant creep. Given full rein, he’d have been England’s Torquemada! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada) The fellow had no redeeming features that I could see. He was everything that was vile and obnoxious about the high-ranking Men of God of his time. More the Baby-eating Archbishop of Bath…
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If you go to this link (https://tinyurl.com/4bv85ppr) you’ll find: “….If you like a good plot, a historical setting with plenty of twists and turns, betrayal, romance, and a surprise ending then Blood and White Roses is just the novel for you…..” So writes Natalie Key, Female First Book reviewer, about the new novel Blood and…
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