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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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On Sunday 5th July, the Richard III Society hosted a study day about Edward of Middleham, England’s forgotten Prince. The first presentation was by Philippa Langley, and there was so much information it was incredible! She referenced Annette Carson’s and Marie Barnfield’s research regarding the dates of birth and death of Edward, and also her…
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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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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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Last month we published a post on the top fifty Ricardian fiction books and now we look at the top non- fiction ones. I wasn’t surprised at the top few of these. Number one was the classic biography of Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall. It flows like a novel and isn’t the usual…
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Saturday April 11th Crown Hotel, Nantwich 2.00 p.m. Doors open 1.00p.m. A Voice For Richard Yvonne Moreley Chisholm will be presenting the latest reveal of this fascinating project. Tickets : £20 (including refreshments) Please contact Marion Moulton asap for tickets and payment details: tedandbess1943@gmail.com
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For those of us interested in/intrigued by the mystery at Coldridge, there is to be a talk about the church and its history on Saturday, March 21 between 10am and 4pm. Tickets at £10 each. The mystery is, of course, whether the older of the two Princes in the Tower, known as Edward V, was…
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Perhaps you know that Friday 13th came to be considered unlucky because of the Knights Templar. The story goes: On the morning of Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV. had many Templars arrested, including the order’s Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. In the days and weeks after that fateful Friday, more than 600 Templars…
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