This post has been prompted by the article you’ll find here: https://www.documentarytube.com/best-of/the-10-best-documentaries-about-richard-iii/. You must accept from the outset that Richard seized the throne, of course….yawn…. And one look at the image above, which shows the Tudors’ spiteful version of Richard III, seems to be an indication of the general drift. I hope that at least…

I came upon this intriguing article about Langley Castle https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/unexplained/the-famous-sobbing-ghost-of-langley-castle-which-inspired-jk-rowling/ when looking for information about Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. Of course, there are a least two places named Langley. Edmund’s is in the south, at King’s Langley in Hertfordshire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Langley_Palace), whereas Langley Castle, said to be the only fortified medieval castle hotel in…

Honestly, I begin to wonder how on earth we managed before DNA was discovered. It has transformed so many fields, not least for the police, but its use now reaches way back into history, especially since the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012. See here: https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/richard-iii-plantagenet-car-park-king-timeline-discovery-leicester-reburial-key-dates/ More recently DNA also proved that Kasper Hauser…

The sons of Edward IV will be the focus of a talk by guest speaker Graham Mitchell, Yorkshire branch secretary of the Richard III Society, at Lees Methodist Church Meeting Point next Wednesday (November 6). For those of us not acquainted with that part of the world, Lees is near Haworth. The King’s Nephews-Life after…

If you go to this link How to Get Away with Murder in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net) you will find a very interesting article about the unsolved London killing in December 1276 of one Simon of Winchester. Unsolved? Perhaps. Because it seems to have been a case of knowing whodunnit but not knowing where the…

I’m not this desperate, but if you are interested, then go to this link to learn about “Tudor author” Nathen Amin’s forthcoming talk on Henry VII and Pembroke. https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/24668622.pembroke-talk-henry-vii-given-town-hall/

My husband Robin and I were married on 28 October 1967, and today would have been our fifty-seventh anniversary, but I lost him nine years ago. It’s still hard to be on my own. Back then we lived in a tiny cottage in Hardwicke, a few miles south of Gloucester. Our daughter Sarah was a…

Once again a medieval abbey property that has been turned into a beautiful residence is on the market, this time for a mere £2.95 million. (At least it was when I found the link and decideed to write about it.) When I see the ridiculous sums needed to acquire modest, rather indifferent properties in London,…

Um….it took me a while to latch on to what this list https://tinyurl.com/4ejwhhy5 is actually about. It concerns the kings who changed England the most rather than the greatest kings of England. Which is why poor old Richard is in there, presumably for inflicting the awful Tudors on us. But I’m sure he didn’t mean…

East Shefford is a tiny place in Berkshire, just down the road from Great Shefford. It’s not an actual village and never has been, it would seem…but it does have a very interesting church, spireless, small, untouched, looking to the visitor as if it is on private land beside a manor house. However, there is…