Collective Reading – Thanksgiving Break
♛ Collective Reading ♛
As family events on the long Thanksgiving weekend take up lots of time and leave less time for the collective reading, the discussion takes a break today and will resume chat and discussion of the next chapters at the usual time and place next Sunday.
December 2nd, 2012: Discussion of the scheduled next chapters: Book II, chapter 13 – Book III, chapter 4
- Twitter-Chat-Group: Twitter discussion under hashtag #RA4R3
- Facebook-Group: Institute of Armitage Studies
- Schedule on Blog: Distracted in Reality by Fanny/iz4blue
♛ Leicester News ♛
- redOrbit: Scientists Searching For Richard III: ‘It’s Not Like CSI’, by Alan McStravick (15.11.2012)
- This is Leicester: Archbishop Desmond Tutu discusses faith and Richard III during Leicester Uni visit, by Leicester Mercury (15.11.2012)
- Fox News.com: Possible skeleton of King Richard III in testing, by Stephanie Pappas (16.11.2012)
- BBC Radio Leicester: Prof. Lin Foxhall interviewed by BBC Radio Leicester about King Richard III identification, expected beginning of the year 2013 (Audio-Interview 19.11.2012)
- BBC News Leicester: Richard III dig: Results expected in January (19.11.2012)
- Story of Leicester: Richard III Walking Tour – Take a walk (or virtual walk) through Leicester and visit its Richard III sights.
- Houston Chronicle: UK find revives the debate over Richard III’s legacy, by Anthony Faiola, Washington Post – A not in all points correct article, which seems to have been written a bit in haste and negligently, though it does combine some of the points in the War of the Cities between Leicester and York to some length. The article ends in a way as if to forcibly come to an ending and so comes to a disappointing kill-it-all conclusion, which is used to death by all Richard III opponents and gets a bit boring and lame by now. (24.11.2012)
I mention this last article, as it is one of the cases that the topic is discussed at length by a foreign, in this case an U.S. newspaper and this in my view makes it worth to mention. Otherwise, I try to avoid articles, which bring no news, but just repeat what is already published in other articles.
I don’t want to bore you with endless repetitions of the same content.
There was a piece this week on NPR in the U.S., too, with a few errors by a supposed “expert” on British history.
I am really surprised how many presumed King Richard III experts are coming out and jumping onto the publicity stream right now. Fortunately there are the real researchers as well, who really did and do a great job deeply researching the matters they talk about.
Thank you very much, Servetus. Please feel free to link to articles, if you have interesting links. You are very welcome!
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