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I happened upon the following post on Facebook, which might surprise some Americans, who believe that apple pie was invented there. ‘As American as apple pie’, right? Wrong! In 1381 England, the first documented apple pie recipe was crafted without a single spoonful of sugar. Instead, this medieval masterpiece combined fresh apples, figs, raisins, and…
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On Thurs 24th April, members of the Yorkshire Branch visited York St John’s University to view Philipp Sommer’s one man presentation of “Re-lording Richard 3.0”. Philipp is a noted German actor, and this was his first presentation in English, and what an impressive ‘tour de force’ it was. A witty and emotional Richard is in…
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See “King Richard III” give a talk in Stamford, Lincolnshire….
There is a wonderful 550-year-old hospital in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and it is there due to the 1475 generosity of wealthy wool merchant William Browne and his wife. It was granted a charter by Richard III, not long before the king’s tragic death at the Battle of Bosworth. “….British Museum curator Dr Gareth Williams is helping…
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This year, 2025, it was the ten-year anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral. My friend and I went to Leicester to experience some of the festivities and took the opportunity to visit Fotheringhay, about an hour’s drive from Leicester. This, of course, was the birthplace of Richard as well as the…
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Reblogged from https://sparkypus.com/2025/04/11/princes-in-the-tower-a-damning-discovery-professor-tim-thornton-and-dr-tracy-gorman-a-smoking-gun-or-a-shooting-of-themselves-in-the-foot/ Professor Thornton shows Jason Watkins and Dr Tracy Borman his ‘new discovery’ that no one has ever seen before but only they have…. Channel 5 Documentary ‘Princes in the Tower: Damning Discovery’ Where to begin…should I even do so? But needs must…. Around early November 2024 it had begun to be…
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This is the fourth You Tube video that Richard III Society has posted, debunking some of the myths regarding Richard. They are quite short, between five and just over ten minutes long. This is the fourth one: Who was Richard III? – Busting the Mythology: 4. Was He an Illegal King?
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“….A sapling from an oak tree in the grounds of King Richard III’s birthplace has been planted in the place where he died….” So begins the BBC article you’ll find at https://rb.gy/n5r3y4. And the photograph above is of the ‘mother tree’ at Fotheringhay, near Peterborough, from which the sapling has been ‘born’. The great oak…
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Ian’s blog 2nd March 2025 (A Contribution from Ian Churchward) Here is a bit of a coincidence: John Wesley died on 2nd March 1791 and Horace Walpole died on 2nd March 1797. Both of them wrote about Richard III. John Wesley was a widely respected cleric, theologian and evangelist of the 18th century. He…
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St Ninian was ‘a most holy man’ according to the Venerable Bede. He was born around 360AD, near Hadrian’s Wall. He is first heard of in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland from his monastery in Whithorn, Galloway. For this reason he is known…
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