medieval characters
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Joanne Larner: Please would you provide a short introduction for those who don’t know you. Andrew Jamieson: My name is Andrew Jamieson and for over 40 years I have been a fully trained and qualified painter of heraldry, calligrapher and traditional manuscript illuminator. In 2023 His Majesty the King asked me to design and paint…
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Dunstan was born around 910 in Somerset, and, as a boy, studied under Irish monks at Glastonbury. He showed early promise in terms of both scholarship and handicrafts, and at a young age became a priest. Over a long career – he died in Canterbury in 988 in his late 70s – Dunstan served as…
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…the online edition of the Edward IV Coronation Roll (Free Library MS Lewis E201), after three years’ work. It is now fully interactive – with transcriptions, translations and annotations. They say: In the turbulent fifteenth century, rival claimants to the English throne presented their cases in elaborate genealogical rolls. One of the most colorful and…
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On Saturday afternoon we were treated to a fantastically interesting talk by Professor Caroline Wilkinson, she who had created the reconstruction of Richard’s head. It was the Isolde Wigram Memorial Lecture and she touched on the reconstruction but concentrated on the A Voice for Richard project, which she participated in. She described all the detailed…
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Last weekend was the Richard III Society AGM and Members’ Weekend at the Grand Hotel in Leicester. On Friday there was a gathering in the Guildhall, with drinks and food, but unfortunately, probably because of the first named storm of the year, Amy, the power both to the Guildhall and the Cathedral next door, was…
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by Maria Leotta The very day I started working for the Trust Museum, I had my induction at the Castle Museum. On the first floor, just above Kirkgate also called Victorian streets, there are four beautiful period rooms, mostly Victorian, that reproduce how those rooms would have appeared to contemporaries. However, the room that mostly…
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On September 28, the Catholic Church remembers Saint Wenceslas, a 10th-century Bohemian duke and martyr. St. Wenceslas is known for his piety, patronage of the poor, and his role in converting Bohemia to Christianity. He converted his nation to Christianity and was known for his kindness, generosity, and piety. He was martyred by his brother,…
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Another of Richard’s Scandinavian ancestors is King Olav II (Saint Olav) of Norway. Here is his story. Saint Olav/Olaf (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. He was canonised at Nidaros (Trondheim) by Bishop Grimketel, one year after his death in the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030.…
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Here is the next in our ‘An Interview With…’ series. Ian Churchward, lives in Torquay in South Devon and his main hobby is writing and recording songs as The Legendary Ten Seconds. He is also very interested in anything to do with Richard III and he is a member of the Richard III Society. Joanne…
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I confess to not knowing much about Andrew Slade before reading this article—https://shorturl.at/Zcc6T—but quite clearly he is an acting force to be reckoned with. And as he not only starred in this play about Richard III, but also wrote it, he is a great adornment to the world of theatre. The object of Andrew’s play…
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