4 More Days …
… till our celebrations and commemoration week begins …
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.
A few days more to live …
Not only happy memories are connected with the 22nd of August, though surely a certain Birthday lets the fandom of Richard Armitage celebrate this day. (You can leave your Birthday Wishes at specially destined places in the fandom. Thankfully Servetus created a special list of the options, to help you find the place of your choice.)
What makes this time in August especially significant to me is the fact that King Richard III’s remains were found on the estimated day his remains were buried by the Franciscan friars in their church in Leicester. So maybe the king has a certain sense for anniversaries and their special significance.
In this sense, let’s celebrate and commemorate his life, the life of a wonderful actor and the sensational find, bringing all strings magically together – in Leicester.
Commemoration and Re-Enactment of the Battle of Bosworth
begins already before the actual event
on Saturday, 17th of August 2013 !
For more information, please visit the Bosworth Battlefield website about this year’s:
Anniversary Re-Enactment of the Battle of Bosworth (17./18.08.2013)
♛ King Richard III ♛
- Liverpool Daily Post: I can’t accept Richard III sounds like a pantomime country bumpkin with a terrible nose cold, by Laura Davis (08.08.2013) – I am not alone with my reservations. Though my doubts are more along the lines of the well nourished head replica, while King Richard III in sources is mentioned as rather slim and ascetic looking, which the portraits – unfortunately no exact one survived from his lifetime – would confirm.
- The Framework Blog: August Is Hot: Proud Moment, by Violet (12.08.2013) – Violet discovered
sensational news
about the film project and the developed script by Philippa Langley. The name “Blood Royal” for the script is revealed on her publisher’s website: Macmillan, where her next book “The King’s Grave” is due to be published in October 2013. Read more about Violet’s discoveries here!
“Blood Royal” reminds me quite a lot about the genealogy of the Plantagenet.
Here e.g. The Clarence Volume: “The Plantagenet Roll of Blood Royal […]” by the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval.
The Preface might especially be interesting for someone researching European Royalty. - Royal Central: The Defence of Richard III Part 3 – To Kill A King, by Matt Lewis (12.08.2013) – See also the previous parts in this series of defence by Matt Lewis: part 1 and part 2
- Science 2.0 (Blog): Battle Of Bosworth – The Last Stand Of Richard III Located (14.08.2013) – Interesting article, though the result and statement “Richard III. Popular among no one in England” may be arguable – as it certainly does not pay off for a king to champion those who cannot write and bring their voices to paper for later generations to hear, against someone who willingly manipulates the story told by paying for his own version and destroying the rest.
- White Rose: Sincere and Simple Thoughts (Blog): King Richard Armitage Week 2013 Coming Soon, by Fabolaktuko (14.08.2013) – Please note the name of the blog. Fabolaktuko will join next week’s KRA-event !
- ThisIsNottingham.co.uk: Scientists work to reveal secrets of King Richard III, by Bryan Henesey (14.08.2013) – Scientists are trying to find out more about the life King Richard III lead, what he ate, what illnesses he had, where he lived and traveled, …
Results of the research by Prof. Jane Evans and Dr. Angela Lamb are expected for the end of 2013! - FirstThings.com (Blog): Perry Dane on Richard III (14.08.2013) – Comment to the original article we mentioned in last week’s news updates about the rite for King Richard III‘s burial ceremony by Mark Movsesian.
♛ Richard III – Events ♛
- 17./18.08.2013
Anniversary Re-Enactment of the Battle of Bosworth
(Bosworth Battlefield Centre) - 23.08.2013, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
York in the Reign of Richard III, by Chris Tuckley (at the Yorvik Viking Centre)
More details here on the VisitYork website.
Closer to the Day …
♛ King Richard III ♛
- PR.com (PressRelease): Richard III: Martyr or Monster? The Shocking Truth Behind Shakespeare’s Bloody Tyrant, by Kultur International Films Ltd (01.08.2013) – This film production by does not seem to be connected with the video-DVD of the TV documentary in two parts “Richard III: The King in the Car Park” and “Unseen Story”, though I can’t find the title on the Amazon.co.uk website yet.
As announced on this Kultur-website, the DVD will become available on 27 August 2013. A short trailer is already available on this site as well.
- Royal Central (Blog): The Real White Queen? A Defence Of King Richard III, by Matt Lewis (02.08.2013) – A very enlightening background comment about the TV series “The White Queen”.
An interview with the author of this post can be found here: Interivew with Matthew Lewis – author of the book “Loyalty”, by Karen Kilrow (13.07.2013) - InLoughborough.com: Bosworth buzzing about first re-enactment since Richard III discovery (02.08.2013) – This year’s Bosworth Battlefield Re-Enactment Event is taking place on the weekend 17th/18th of August, 2013.
- University of Leicester: Emotional end of final dig at Richard III site (05.08.2013)
- Royal Central (Blog): Anne Neville – The Bad Queen? By Sean Okeeffe (05.08.2013) – Was Anne Neville, the queen about which history has nearly no reliable resources at all, really the bad queen as whom she was depicted in the latest episode of “The White Queen”?
- Royal Central (Blog): The Defence of Richard III Part 2 – The Foundations of Evil, by Matt Lewis (06.08.2013) – Was King Richard III guilty of all the crimes he was accused of? Follow this gripping series of articles by author Matt Lewis, exploring the background and coming to a verdict at the end of each article.
- IsleOfMan.com: Richard III, the king in the car park, is coming to the island (05.08.2013) – That now would be a resting place for the king. Sorry ! Don’t want to heat up the discussion again, but the headline lead my thoughts astray. The king unfortunately is not coming himself, but Richard Buckley from the University of Leicester, as the further article on the Isle of Man website ‘King in the Car Park’ Archaeologist to visit the Island, by Charnwood Tails (05.08.2013) reveals.
- Leicester Mercury: Richard III: Historian claims he was ‘airbrushed out of king story’, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (06.08.2013) –
Quote of a ‘Spokesman’ for the University of Leicester:We had to go through Richard’s lineage again, and verify the work which was carried out more than 10 years ago. We can’t have everyone at the press conference. Perhaps we should have invited the creator of DNA fingerprinting as well, seeing as he played a part?
This in my opinion for once is a situation, where a ‘spokesman’ should not have spoken, but rather should have taken the time to research the background of the topic he was talking about. Dr. Ashdown-Hill over years researched the connections and relationships and later irrelevant sidelines, to find the valid one leading into our time, which could possibly be used for a DNA analysis. The University of Leicester – don’t think I am making accusations here as their work is a valid and necessary one as well – just had to confirm an already extensively researched line of ancestry and could rely on the previously done work, which in total was a matter of mere months.
As this is only one aspect of many, where the finding of King Richard III heavily relied on the previously done work by Dr. John Ashdown-Hill, that is really not the best way to cope with one of the main contributors to the search. - First Thing: No Catholic Burial for Richard III, by Mark Movsesian (06.08.2013) – See what religion and strawberries have in common.
- My Debonair Affair (Blog): King Richard III, by michellejimenezp (07.08.2013) – New art project for Richard Armitage as King Richard III ! Updates about the progress of the painting will follow shortly.
- ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III visitor centre gets go-ahead, by DanJMartin (07.08.2013)
- BBC News: Richard III museum plans in Leicester approved (07.08.2013) – With a few more pictures of the planned center than the previous article, though no further information.
♛ KRA – Announcements ♛
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.
To Accomodate a King
– – 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 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).
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:
♛ 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 ♛
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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.