– – Sorry for the delay with the news updates,
but a journey and real life intervened. – –

 
At the moment, a lead coffin found near King Richard III gets all the media coverage, using the general interest for King Richard III to gain attention. Though what this discovery should add in knowledge about King Richard III is not entirely clear to me, as the burial is in no connection to King Richard III, except that it is in close range and might have some significance regarding the financial and social status and influence of the Grey Friars in Leicester in general.
 
I don’t know if the next grave to my family in the burial ground at home will tell later generations something about me, at least not much more than that at one point a priest must have come to the decision to put the graves next to each other. So I don’t trust that the new discovery in Leicester will be able to tell us anything about King Richard III, but we will see.
 

♛ King Richard III ♛

• The York Press: Replica of Richard III’s head goes on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York, by Kate Liptrot (19.07.2013) – King Richard III, at least his head, currently resides in York, in the Richard III Museum, till October.

 

• The Telegraph: Let’s give Richard III the last great Gothic tomb in Britain, by Harry Mount (19.07.2013)

 

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III will be buried in raised tomb, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (19.07.2013) – I am very glad to read that plans to take the bones of King Richard III on a procession to and from Bosworth Battlefields to the Cathedral are abandoned. To see a repeat of this way King Richard III had to endure in shame would not have been a procession to celebrate for me.

 

• Tulsa World: My kingdom for tourist dollars: King Richard III gets $1.5 million reburial, by Ginny Graham, News Columnist (19.07.2013) – Money is key, if spent for a royal baby or King Richard III.

 

• Leicester Mercury: Richard III dig: The hidden secrets of historic friary, by Peter Warzynski (20.07.2013) – Learn more about the new excavation at the site where King Richard III was found and the digging spots and what so far can be deducted from the finds.

 

Now, when it is about money, even
German news takes an interest in King Richard III:

• Spiegel Online: Richard III.: Millionengrab für einen König (18.07.2013) – I especially love the comment about the ‘supernatural / transcendental’ way of the re-interment for King Richard III.

 

• N24.de: Der König unterm Parkplatz. Ein millionenschweres Grab für Richard III. (19.07.2013)

• The Independent: How did Richard III turn into a PR plaything? Today’s latest hot Richard III news was yet another nail in a very thoroughly hammered coffin. The man has been dead for 528 years, after all, by Archie Bland (29.07.2013) – Very interesting and witty article about dignity of a king versus modern marketing interests and PR.

 

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III dig: 100,000 see king exhibition, by Dan Martin, Leicester Mercury (30.07.2013) –
  

  Martin Traynor (Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce chief executive): “[…] Richard III will be a real game changer for Leicester.“

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• Daily Gazette: A crown fit for a king, by Wendy Brading (31.07.2013) – Historian Dr. John Ashdown-Hill remedies a historical injustice and will restore King Richard III’s dignity as King of England while giving him back his own crown.

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• Times Higher Education: Leicester ‘airbrushed’ historian out of Richard III find, by Paul Jump (01.08.2013) – A fact I wondered about for quite a while now.
  To counteract the strange effect of Leicester favouritism, I am currently working on a presentation of the different aspects of Dr. John Ashdown-Hill’s research here on KRA, as his work played a, no ‘the’ crucial role to make the later results of the University of Leicester and the finding of King Richard III even possible.

 
Dr. John Ashdown-Hill is one of the few historians, who’s research and unerring way to search for the grain of truth in historical legend and fictionalising of facts, which so richly surround King Richard III, I admire greatly.
Here are some previous KRA-articles and interviews with Dr. Ashdown-Hill, who kindly supported our efforts here on KRA right up from the very beginning and granted us an interview as early as for our first ever KingRichardWeek 2011:
 

• Dr. John Ashdown-Hill talks about his research regarding King Richard III
• Started KRA-page about Dr. Ashdown-Hill’s research.
• Information about Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and his publications.

 

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III centre is set to be approved, by Dan Martin, Leicester Mercury (01.08.2013) – Plans for the Richard III visitor centre in Leicester intend a truly great place for history and research about King Richard III.

 

• MSN.co.nz: World famous scientist kicks off family history fair, by Melissa Hills (01.08.2013) – Dr. Jo Appleby (Human Bioarchaeology, University of Leicester), currently is on tour in New Zealand and talked about the research discovering King Richard III at the New Zealand Family History Fair (2nd – 4th August 2013).

♛ Richard III – Events ♛

• 6 August 2013: Talk about Richard III at St Peter’s Church in Seaford – Shirley Linsell, member of the Richard III Society, will talk as part of the East Blatchington lectures. (Ticket price: £ 5,-. Find out more about the booking details here.)

 

• 11 August 2013, 3 p.m.: Searching for Richard III – Lecture held by Richard Buckley at the Coldstream Community Centre. (Ticket price: £ 3,- Please see details at the Northumberland Gazette for how to mail-order or obtain them.)

 

• 14 August 2013, 6:30 p.m.: Richard’s York, Richard’s Leicester with Peter Hammond

 

• 17 August 2013: Enjoy York Races or Richard III – If you are not a lady… – Oh, I am sure the Halifax Courier meant it in a different way, but if you are not interested in Ladies Day at the York Races, you can visit the Richard III exhibition at Leicester and find out more about the archaeological detective work done there. (Price for the trip: £ 25,-. Booking via Tel.: 01422 810096 or more information at the website of the Halifax Courier).

♛ KRA – Announcements ♛

• Our Facebook page hit the 800 fan mark!
   
  Thank you for all your interest and support !!!

 

• Richard Fan Art – Website: Unfortunately the latest update today for our picture gallery plugin did destroy the functionality entirely. As I was not content with this plugin, I had been on the search for an alternative anyway, though it might take some time now to replace it and upload and re-arrange all the previously uploaded pictures again. Please give me some more time to repair this, as currently KRA Week 2013 is occupying all my spare time.
  The rest of the functionality, e.g. article notifications and contribution forms, on the website still work fine.

 

King Richard Armitage Week 2013

is coming up fast!

21st – 28th of August, 2013

 
The page for the event is already created and available, though content there will be added from 21st of August, 2013, the beginning of the event, onwards.
Safe the date, take part in the upcoming quiz during the event week and enjoy fan-tastic history with us.