Showing posts with label Richard III. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard III. Show all posts
Friday, July 03, 2026

Ian Holm as Richard III in the BBC's Wars of the Roses from 1965

›
First, Fergus McClelland led us to Brecht on television. Now, bless his little khaki shorts, he's led us to Shakespeare. Ravensbourne ...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

Sir Walter Scott invented "The Wars of the Roses"

›
Here's an interesting passage from Chris Given-Wilson in a recent London Review of Books: There are several earlier references, dating ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

For Central Bylines: The discovery of Richard III enriched Leicester in every way

›
I've written another article for Central Bylines . This one celebrates the discovery of Richard III beneath Leicester's most famous ...
1 comment:
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Gypsy: Changes Coming

›
The two best bands to emerge from Leicester in the Sixties were Family and Gypsy. Family are the more celebrated today, but I've been to...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Hilary Mantel on the finding of Richard III

›
Here's Hilary Mantel , writing in the London Review of Books, 21 February 2013: Royal bodies do change after death, and not just as a co...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

When filmmakers trample all over real-life stories you care about

›
There should be an ancient Chinese curse: May someone make a film of a real-life story you care about. I went to a couple of open days at th...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Steve Coogan, Richard III and today's libel settlement

›
I was going to write a post about Steve Coogan, the Richard III dig in Leicester and today's new of a libel settlement. But I found that...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Leicester Cathedral's oral history project on the discovery of Richard III

›
Leicester Cathedral is running an oral history project to capture the story of the discovery, identification, and reinterment of Richard II...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Wilding: A film based on Isabella Tree's book

›
It occurs to me that three of the films I have seen most recently at the cinema have been documentaries: Eric Ravilious - Drawn to War , Mad...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Steve Coogan film on the finding of Richard III defamed former University of Leicester official

›
From the Guardian website today: The portrayal of a former university official in Steve Coogan’s film about the discovery of the remains of...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

The Lost King libel action comes to court

›
I've blogged before about Richard Taylor's intention to sue the makers of the film The Lost King over the way he is represented in i...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

The Princes in the Tower: The final verdict

›
This is the one I've been waiting for. I've not watched it yet, but if they leave Richard III alone in the interview room with Barlo...
1 comment:
Thursday, November 30, 2023

A podcast on Ladybird Books and L. du Garde Peach

›
We should soon have the answer to the question of who murdered the Princes in the Tower.  A YouTube channel says it will be posting the Seco...
1 comment:
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Who found Richard III and did the Princes in the Tower survive?

›
Philippa Langley was the catalyst of the dig that found Richard III in Leicester. In particular, she played an invaluable role in getting th...
1 comment:
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Proof the Princes in the Tower lived longer than Richard III?

›
Back in August I sent you off to a podcast featuring the historian Matt Lewis and his theory that the Princes in the Tower survived for som...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Cardinal Wolsey is buried somewhere in Leicester - don't worry, he's not under a car park

›
At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his convent honorably received him; T...
1 comment:
Monday, October 02, 2023

Former University of Leicester director of communications to sue Steve Coogan over his portrayal in The Lost King

›
The Sun's archaeology correspondent writes: Actor Steve Coogan is being sued over claims he portrayed a university ­academic as a “sexi...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Who murdered the Princes in the Tower? Nobody

›
Click on Millais's painting of the princes to listen to Matt Lewis's Gone Medieval podcast on their fate. If you want a clue to the ...
2 comments:
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Legay: No-one

›
Who were the coolest band in Leicester in the late Sixties? The consensus, I think, would be Family , but they had a rival in the shape of L...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Richard III: Solving a 500-year-old cold case

›
Recorded in 2016, this is an enjoyable gallop through the finding of the remains of Richard III in Leicester. Professor Turi King, as she no...
2 comments: