Richard III
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One of the most intriguing and, let’s face it, entertaining characters in all of Ricardian history must be King Louis the Eleventh of France – known to history by his sobriquet The Spider. Others may cite Margaret Anjou or Henry Tudor as a deeper thorn in the flesh of King Richard the Third but surely the…
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A bright and sunny Queen Elizabeth II meets the lady who recreated King Richard III for us! https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/pipe/news/scotland/queen-meets-forensic-expert-behind-richard-iii-face-reconstruction/
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Here is a very interesting piece of comparison between Shakespeare’s Richard and the real man. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201646
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Fairest as in being the most just…although, as always, he suffers at the hands of unjust historians. I have been browsing through a book entitled A Short History of the English People by Cyril Ransome, published 1903. Richard gets a mixed review, even though he is accused (sometimes it is only implied) of all the…
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7 books 60 hours + of TV 1 year of history Warning: Massive spoilers!!! Game of Thrones is perhaps the most epic novel and TV series ever created. George RR Martin has woven a world Tolkien would have been proud of, managing to be filled with fantasy, but just recognisable enough to pull us in,…
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“These girls who were boarded out were not acquiring an academic, or even a domestic education, but learning to attend upon a mistress, to embroider, play the lute or virginals, sing and dance. A few might receive their education at a nunnery: Jane Shore, for instance, was a product, if not an advertisement, for the…
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This is a fascinating analysis of the evidence supporting the fact that it definitely was Richard! Click here for full post!
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http://www.historyextra.com/article/richard-iii/7-medieval-kings-you-should-know-about Richard HAD to be one of the seven. He may have only reigned for a couple of years, but what years they were. And if he’d won at Bosworth, what a wonderful age his reign would have been. The legislation passed at his parliament was a mere taste of what he wanted to do…
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Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum For me, being a “Ricardian traveler” doesn’t necessarily mean that you only visit places where Richard III — as a child, the Duke of Gloucester or the King — lived. It means exploring towns, castles, battlefields, and churches which have some association to…
