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Richard III: Lordship, Loyalty and Profiteering

Jamie Adair October 4, 2013

Richard III may not have killed the princes in the tower, but it doesn’t mean he was Mr. Nice Guy...

Jamie Adair October 4, 2013

Have we swung too far the other way? Richard III has swung from being the deformed vilified monster in Shakespeare...

Olga Hughes October 3, 2013

Five centuries on and even the very bones of Richard III are causing controversy. In 2009 screenwriter and secretary of...

Olga Hughes October 3, 2013

In The King in the Car Park documentary, the world watched as the skeleton discovered on the very first day...

Olga Hughes October 2, 2013

The Legend of Richard of Eastwell Richard, a bricklayer, had arrived in Eastwell in 1542 or 1543 and made his...

Olga Hughes October 2, 2013

King Richard III has long been a puzzle that history is desperate to solve. His reign only lasted twenty-two months,...

Olga Hughes October 1, 2013

She was the daughter of one of the most powerful men of the Middle Ages, a Princess of Lancaster by...

C S Hughes September 28, 2013

It is said speculation is the spice on the lumpy porridge of history. Satire is the plums. History itself is...

Olga Hughes September 16, 2013

Henry VIII has spent nearly five centuries hiding behind the skirts of his many wives. He is one of the...

Olga Hughes September 13, 2013

The four surviving children of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York all had a crown in their future, but it...