York
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I do hope they plan to stage more than just the Bard’s improbable notion of Richard III, clever as it is. But whatever they do, this theatre can only do well for York. See here, here and here.
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Here is an interesting article on York Minster with some stunning photographs. My Ricardian friends will find it easy to picture King Richard, Queen Anne and their small son, Edward, emerging through the massive doorway and pausing for a short while on the steps, following the glorious ceremony where Edward was invested as Prince of…
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I can’t agree that Leicester is shamelessly “milking” Richard III for all he’s worth. On the contrary, it seems to me that it’s Richard in the driving seat, and Leicester is having to rush around to keep up with him! Not that Leicester is complaining. Why should they? Richard was an excellent king who knew…
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An interesting article on one of the best preserved medieval streets in England. Note for my Ricardian friends. As the Shambles was originally where the butchers had their shops and also where the animals were slaughtered too with gullies either side down which the blood would flow I doubt very much that Richard would have…
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Right, ladies and gentlemen. £1.1 million is what we need. If we get out our numerous piggy banks and pool our resources, we may acquire one of Richard’s most important castles in the north! “THE ruins of Sheriff Hutton castle near York are for sale as part of a £1.1 million estate. “The remains of…
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Picture this, as Blondie once sang:- “…[In 1486] many of the southern nobility and prominent gentry of the kingdom accompanied Henry VII on what an attendant herald described as the first progress of his reign. This took them to Nottingham and then after Easter onwards toward York. “And by the wayside in barnesdale, a littil…
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Miles Metcalf, or how the city of York defied Henry VII…
Archbishop of York, Bosworth, Coventry, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Exeter, Francis Bacon, Guy Fairfax, Henry VII, John Vavasour, maps, Miles Metcalf, Norwich, Richard Green, Richard III, riots, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, Stoke Field, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Middleton, York, York civic recordsIn a book called The Fifteenth Century – 3: Authority and Subversion, edited by Linda Clark, there is an interesting essay by James Lee entitled Urban Recorders and the Crown in Late Medieval England. I have taken from the article to illustrate the situation of the city of York with regard to the vital position…
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Read here to learn about Edwin Ridsdale Tate, the man who created the magnificent drawing above, showing medieval York.
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Well, OK, I admit it, the picture right above is NOT Edmund. It’s just an image of a young knight, which is what Edmund was at the time of his death. The trouble is, what did Edmund of Rutland actually look like? Another giant like his elder brother Edward IV? Or…smaller and more delicate, like his…
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