Henry VII
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Summary of a talk by Laura Cardy Shortly after joining the Richard III Society, I was invited to contribute to The Missing Princes Project, initiated by Philippa Langley. My task focused on an intriguing question: might St John’s Abbey in Colchester have played a role in the fate of Richard of York, the younger of…
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I have written recently about Jo Harkin’s new book, The Pretender, (https://murreyandblue.co.uk/2025/05/05/the-pretender-takes-the-same-old-attitude-to-richard-iii/) which tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who claimed to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, for whom the Yorkists fought (and lost) the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487. You can read about the earl here https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_25.html. And about Lambert Simnel here https://richardiii.net/faqs/richard-and-his-world/aftermath/lambert-simnel-and-the-king-from-dublin/…
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10+ misunderstood historical figures, including Richard III….
Well, if there’s a list of historical figures on-line, you can be virtually certain that Richard III will crop up somewhere….usually as the bad guy. Well, thanks to Henry VII, Thomas More, John Morton, Shakespeare and just about any dumb historian since then. If ever there was a flock of sheep, historians of Richard III…
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This link https://tinyurl.com/zjr9h9jx will take you to yet another rather peculiar list, this time of so-called awful in-laws from the distant and near past. Needless to say, Richard III features (doesn’t he always?). Mind you, the article includes the 16th Earl of Warwick, but in fact it concerns Richard III’s dealings with Elizabeth Woodville, the…
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This link—https://tinyurl.com/ycxfcmnu—is to a video about the archaeology and research that has been going on for a long time at the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field. This work has uncovered “….a multitude of incredibly well-preserved objects that provide new insight into where the Battle of Bosworth took place, what sort of weapons were…
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I’ve had the honour of reviewing and contributing to some of the Legendary Ten Seconds’ past output, and am delighted to have the chance to share my thoughts on this new album, which is entitled Ricardian Churchward. As Ian “Ricardian” Churchward’s lyrics relate in the opening track of his latest compilation, he writes and sings…
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Historic Royal Palaces has solved one mystery about the bones in the urn in Westminster Abbey. How they’ve done it is not divulged, but they KNOW the bones are those of two boys, aged about 12 and 10. “….In 1674, two skeletons were unearthed at the Tower. The bones were re-examined in 1933 and proved…
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I confess to not knowing much about Andrew Slade before reading this article—https://shorturl.at/Zcc6T—but quite clearly he is an acting force to be reckoned with. And as he not only starred in this play about Richard III, but also wrote it, he is a great adornment to the world of theatre. The object of Andrew’s play…
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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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