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These are generally quite obscure but can be very useful: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/12/five-medieval-chronicles-that-you-can-read-translated-online/
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So, let us say you find that time machine and go back to Richard III’s era, and you are going to dine with him. How do people act? What should you expect? In old 1950’s movies we see neat and tidy castles and perfectly coiffed people cavorting merrily between trestle tables and dancing in stately…
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This piece by Phillippe Starck is described as “An armchair and a conversation piece, Richard III is a creative personification of Shakespeare’s character, much like the controversial reign of King Richard III, the intriguing design and meticulous realization of the armchair is heavily centered on duality and paradox of its namesake; traditional vs. modern, concave…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Following on from my recent post about the reception of the Agincourt campaign by later generations and the associated ‘myth-making’ which has informed our view of those events, I wanted to look at the character of the central figure in Shakespeare’s play and compare and contrast it with the ‘real’ Henry in…
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https://e-royalty.com/featured-articles/the-first-great-english-poetry/ Geoffrey Chaucer, having married Phillippa de Roet, was to be Richard III’s great-great uncle by marriage. He was also the grandfather-in-law of Richard’s sister, Elizabeth. James I married Joan Beaufort, Chaucer’s niece, the cousin of Richard’s paternal grandfather.
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https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/a-genealogical-mystery-deepens-originally-published-in-the-december-2013-bulletin/ You will hopefully remember, from the above, that the first child by Katherine de Roet usually attributed to John of Gaunt may well have been legally (and biologically) her son by Sir Hugh Swynford. The other two Beaufort sons were childless and their sister married Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, giving all of her…
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Anti-Ricardians often partly justify their dislike of Richard III on account of his unattractive crown-hunger, claiming that he was always desperate to be king, spent his life plotting to this end and ruthlessly eliminating anyone who stood in his way, and cite as proof the prompt “usurpation” of his nephew Edward V in 1483. I’ve…
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This sounds a very agreeable way to spend a day! http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/13872381.Ride_to_sheriff_s_castle_and_tomb_of_a_prince/
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Don’t cry my son, it’s just a graze I know what can bring you cheer You’ll love the taste, so sweet, so fine Better than beer – Malmsey wine Chorus: Malmsey wine, fine and sweet Malmsey wine, you I seek Malmsey wine, heal the pain Malmsey wine: oblivion I know you’re sad, your wife…
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From Leicester Mercury, by danjmartin | Posted: October 08, 2015 If you have the stamina to wade through all the extremely annoying adverts, which really would try the patience of a saint, then this information is interesting. Let us hope that out of the three ‘contestants’ they choose Richard’s sign. http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Huge-King-Richard-III-signs-Leicester-s/story-27945952-detail/story.html
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