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The Handwriting of the Tudors I previously blogged four posts analysing the handwriting of Richard and his contemporaries. For those who missed them before, here are some links link Signs of the Times – The Handwriting of Richard III Signs of the Times 2 This deals with Edward, Edmund of Rutland, Elizabeth Woodville and Clarence…
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I’ve just watched a rather unusual TV programme on Sky History channel. It was presented by Omid Djalili and he explored the Battle of Bosworth with the help of various experts and also two psychics! At first I was sceptical. I am open-minded when it comes to the paranormal (I have had some pretty strange…
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For those of us who live within a reasonable distance of Keighley, I think the following extract may be a lure: “…..Graham Mitchell, secretary of the Yorkshire branch of the Richard III Society, is giving a presentation at a meeting of Keighley and District Local History Society….His talk – The King’s Nephews, Life After Death?…
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The Richard III Society has posted a series of You Tube videos, debunking some of the myths regarding Richard. They are quite short, between five and just over ten minutes long. Here is the first one: Who Was Richard III? – Busting the Mythology: 1. Was Richard a hunchback?
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An invitation to a magnificent farewell feast….
Auld Lang Syne, Castles in the air, cats, Elizabeth Duchess of Suffolk, Fools and jesters, Henry VII, John de la pole Earl of Lincoln, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, lapdogs, Margaret Beaufort, medieval dogs and hounds, medieval feasts and banquets, medieval recipes, pugs, Richard III, Sir William StanleyI think that by now many of you know that the Murrey & Blue blog is to end by 24 January. To those of you for whom this is the first intimation, I apologise. There may be efforts to continue it or start a new blog in its place, but the final post in its…
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A lodge is now generally understood as a small house at an entrance to a stately home, formerly occupied by a man or woman whose job it was to open the park gates for legitimate users and exclude the – er – riff-raff. Some houses have (or had) several lodges as the house had several…
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We all know how much time Richard III spent in the north, and that he was certainly happy there. He ruled it well when he was still Duke of Gloucester, and was much loved for his fairness and justice. When he was king and went on his first progress in 1484, he went north again,…
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Rhys ap Thomas and the tournament of April 1507….
2nd Duke of Buckingham, A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire by Richard Fenton, Battle of Bosworth, Carew Castle, Field of Cloth of Gold, Henry VII, House of Tudor, John Morton, Margaret Beaufort, Order of the Garter, Pembroke and Monkton Local History Society, Rhys ap Thomas, Richard III, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, tournamentsThis morning the following link dropped into my inbox: https://tinyurl.com/3uwbet79. It seems there was a talk at the “….Pembroke and Monkton Local History Society….first meeting of 2025 on Saturday morning, January 11 in Pembroke Town Hall.…” Why have I picked up on this? Well, perhaps because of the subject of the talk “….will focus on…
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“….UK conservators knit together thousands of pictures taken at Angers Cathedral of Saint Maurille paintings….” It was while reading this article—https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/03/medieval-wall-paintings-hidden-in-a-french-cathedral-revealed-in-digital-imagery—that I learned of a worthy decade-long project by UK conservationists that has revealed some magnificent medieval wall paintings “….in all their multi-coloured splendour for the first time in more than 500 years….” The paintings,…
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The lute is an instrument that I always associate with the medieval period, and so its playing will often feature in novels, films and so on. And rightly so, because its gentle sound is both beautiful and soothing. Wanting to set a scene where ladies were listening to a lute, I looked online for examples…
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