Leicester Dig Countdown Day 4!
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Leicester Dig Countdown: Day 6
Officially, I’m still on hiatus, but as you probably know, the identity of the remains found at Leicester will be revealed on February 4. Therefore, since I’m doing a countdown on Facebook, I thought I’d do it here as well.
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Bring Out the Bodies and Move ‘Em: Some Modest Proposals
Over the last few weeks, the topic of where Richard III (if the remains at Leicester prove to be his) should be reburied has been the subject of intense (and rather emotional) debate, centering around where the king would have preferred to have been buried. My modest proposal on Facebook that he be divided up
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10 Most Peculiar Things I Have Heard Since the Leicester Dig
As anyone who is reading this blog knows, last week, following an archaeological dig at Leicester, a skeleton was unearthed that may well prove to be that of Richard III. Needless to say, this has led to a flurry of online discussion about Richard and, of course, the age-old question of whether he was responsible for
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Richard the Mourner?
(First, thanks to Joan for discussing this with me over at the Richard III Society’s private Yahoo group.) On a number of places on the Internet, including both the Richard III Society and the Richard III Foundation websites, it’s stated as a fact that Richard wept openly at his queen’s funeral. The Richard III Foundation
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Richard III: Friend of Womankind?
In a particularly hagiographic passage in Richard the Third, Paul Murray Kendall writes, “[O]ften Richard scattered small gifts like a benevolent agent of Providence . . . to Anne Caux, ‘once the nurse of Edward IV,’ he gave £20 yearly ‘in consideration of her poverty’; Katherine Vaux, the faithful lady in waiting to his old
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Richard III the Sickly Child?
Of all the myths that modern writers have created about Richard III, one of the most pervasive is that he was a frail, sickly child who was lucky to have reached adolescence. It pops up in a number of older biographies of Richard, most memorably in that of Paul Murray Kendall, who writes poignantly and
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Richard III and the Fates of Protectors
First, if you happen to follow me on Twitter, please don’t open any direct messages purporting to be from me. They were sent by a hacker, not by me. I very seldom send direct messages on Twitter, and I never send messages inviting people to take IQ tests and so forth. Now, back to our
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A New Richard III Novel: This Time
One of my friends from the Richard III Society, Joan Szechtman, has written a novel about Richard III, which is due out shortly from Basset Books. It’s called This Time, and it has a twist: instead of dying on Bosworth Field, Richard is brought by a team of Americans into present-day Portland, Oregon. Normally, I
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