Peru
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According to this article there have been five interesting archaeological discoveries in the past decade. First among them, of course, is the finding of Richard III’s remains:- “….When King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, he was buried in the church of the Grey Friars. In 2012, The Richard III Society…
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The other talents of Sir Clements Markham
Abyssinia, Antarctic, Arctic, Edward VI, explorers, India, India Office, Inland Revenue, James Gairdner, Lazarille de Tormes, Peru, Richard III, Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Navy, Shackleton, Sir Clements Markham, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir John Franklin, Sir Peter Scott, Spain, translationTo historians, Ricardians in particular, Clements Markham is best known as the writer who built on the earlier research of Horace Walpole and others to rehabilitate the last Plantagenet during the Edwardian era. In this capacity, his rivalry with James Gairdner is legendary and he wrote a biography of Edward VI, however Markham was a…
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