Edward IV
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The usual old twaddle about Richard III….
The quoted paragraphs below are actually from an article about US politics (https://tinyurl.com/ruw9zrnj), and they are a masterclass in how to twist (medieval) history from this side of the Atlantic. I make no comment about US politics, but I do regard these paragraphs as bumf. For those who aren’t familiar with the word, it’s used…
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This is the seventh You Tube video that the 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 seventh one:
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George, Duke of Clarence, is the often overlooked York brother, sitting as he does between Edward IV and Richard III. He was the one who didn’t become king, although he tried to pinch it from Edward IV, who eventually executed him as a traitor. On the whole George doesn’t get a very good press. He…
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Here is an interesting post from History Today about Jane Austen and her opinion of Richard III, Edward IV et al. Click here: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/jane-austen-partial-and-prejudiced-historian?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ9lZJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhBW9NHWcCBbkA7_np2zM2oILJEpqNrn6FVprI3W6RcWJj16A0nq63uGe6on_aem_xIQfestwVYYsngBFMYvS2A As she says, she wasn’t a historian but she was obviously a sensible person!
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Above is an interesting if brief illustration of livery colours from the Wars of the Roses. Not everyone’s there, of course, e.g. the Earl of Lincoln, but it’s interesting all the same. Found on Pinterest. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/9d/ed/b49ded7f38199dad2bc3f46a87b7a464.png I have also found a much longer but unillustrated list of livery colours at http://www.theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=391439, as follows:Edward Neville, Lord…
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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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What was King Richard III really like? Well, Ricardians have always known he was the best, as has Matthew Lewis, who has set about putting the rest of the world right about a king who has had nothing but wrong done to his memory. Historian and author Matthew is, of course, a former Chair of…
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Polls are always interesting, whether for getting it wrong at General Elections or coming up with figures that take everyone so by surprise that no one believes them. If you go to this link—https://tinyurl.com/5c64bp23—you’ll find that YouGov has set about composing, in order of popularity and familiarity, a league of English/British monarchs….and an accompanying article…
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Image by rawpixel.com Blog examining the recent research about the ‘Princes in the Tower’ The above link, on the Medieval History blog, examines the actual evidence revealed in the recent documentaries, regarding the fate of the ‘Princes in the Tower’. I quote a few parts here and have put in bold words I think are…
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