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The following is taken from this interview in History Extra “Q: Which three historical figures would you invite to a dinner party and why? “Queen Anne Neville. Frustratingly little is known of her life. I’d love to know if Anne was happily married to Richard III and how she felt about the events of 1483,…
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Murrey and Blue interviews Michael K. Jones
“The King’s Mother”, “Tudors”, Aquitaine, BBC History Magazine, Castile, Chandos Herald, chivalry, Crecy, David Baldwin, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Enrique of Trastamara, France, Froissart, Henry of Knighton, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hundred Years War, interviews, Jean II, John Gower, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Lionel of Antwerp, Lords Appellant, Malcolm Underwood, Michael K Jones, Military tactics, Mortimers, Najera, Pedro I, Poitiers, Polydore Vergil, propaganda, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III, siege of Limoges, St. John’s College Cambridge, Thomas Brinton, Thomas Walsingham, tyranny, Wars of the Roses, Westminster Hall, YorkistsWhich of the Black Prince’s military achievements is the most impressive and why? The main attraction in writing a biography of the Black Prince was to bring to life his martial exploits, for Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward III, captured the imagination of fourteenth century Europe. The chronicler Jean Froissart described him…
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To the delight of travelers across the globe, tired of lugging all those hard-copy books on planes, trains and automobiles, Annette Carson’s Richard III The Maligned King has just been released in ebook form and can now be purchased on Amazon.com. Along with John Ashdown-Hill, Carson is part of a new generation of historians who…
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From the Golden Age Theatre Company’s Facebook page. Nick Randell interviews playwright Ian Dixon Potter about ‘Good King Richard’ prior to the first performance in December 2015: https://soundcloud.com/…/sns-online-bitesized-series-3-good… The play now transfers to The Drayton Arms Theatre in South Kensington starting next Tuesday. Performances are Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8pm. Saturday matinees at 3pm. The…
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Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
“Tudor” “sources”, “Tudor” rebellions, “Tudors”, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Anne Neville, Annette Carson, book, Elizabeth I, Erasmus, Galway, Henry VIII, humanism, Insurrection, interviews, Ireland, John Morton, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Pilgrimage of Grace, Reformation, Richard III, Shakespeare, Susan Loughlin, The History Press, Thomas MoreAn intriguing new book by historian Susan Loughlin is about to be published by The History Press on April 4th of this year (2016) detailing an event in world history that has perhaps gone unnoticed by some historians and those who run with the history blogs and bloggers. I first “met” Susan Loughlin on the…
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