I am most certainly behind with reporting about the King Richard news.
Real life intervenes quite heavily right now. Sorry. I will try my best to keep up with the news.
 
But now here comes the news collected in the meantime since I fell off the plateau of the earth:
(Due to its length, the articles are arranged in a changed order – from new to old news.)
 

♛ King Richard Armitage ♛

 
Our king, Richard Armitage, will visit Berlin, the German capital, for the European premiere of the second “Hobbit” film “The Desolation of Smaug” on Monday, 9th of December 2013.
 
For this event a Bavarian FanClub banner was created to welcome Richard Armitage in Germany and celebrate ‘our king’:

 

• Leicester Mercury: Hollywood star Richard Armitage donates signed art for Loros hospice auction (07.12.2013) – The auction takes place at the Old Library, in Belvoir Street, Leicester on Sunday, 8th of December 2013.

♛ King Richard III ♛

• The Observer: Philippa Langley: I just felt I was walking on Richard III’s grave. I can’t explain it’, by Elizabeth Day (08.12.2013) – A long overdue article trying to set the perception of the events leading to the discovery of King Richard III and the energy put into it by Philippa Langley right.

 

• Leicester Mercury: Richard III exhibition welcomes 150,000th visitor at the weekend, by Peter Warzynski (03.12.2013)

 

• Belfast Telegraph: Belfast-based academic’s radiocarbon work to improve accuracy for archaeologists, environmental scientists and climate researchers, by Anna Maguire (03.12.2013) – Contrary to this article, I had been of the opinion that the find of King Richard III is the unique opportunity in history to adjust and calibrate the scientific methods and not the other way around, as rarely a case occurs where the exact date of burial is so well known as with King Richard III.

 

• Professional Jeweller: Steffans and Theo Fennell team for tribute to king, by Kathryn Bishop (02.12.2013) – Some morbid jewellery in a King Richard III line created by British jewellers.

 

• InLoughborough: University of Leicester wins Research Project of the Year for Dig for Richard III (01.12.2013)

 

• Leicester Mercury: Richard III: University of Leicester and city council meet to discuss custodian issues, by Peter Warzynski (30.11.2013)

 

• ITV.com: Car-park King dig earns Leicester Uni top prize (29.11.2013) – King Richard III patronising universities again – first Cambridge, now Leicester?

 

• University of Leicester: University of Leicester wins Research Project of the Year for Dig for Richard III (29.11.2013)

 

• Leicester Mercury: Leicester City Council and university at odds over who owns Richard III’s bones, by Peter Warzynski (28.11.2013) – Leicester against York and now Leicester against Leicester? It really seems like a revival of the Wars of the Roses.

 

• Metro.co.uk: Here’s a solution to the Richard III standoff: Share his remains, by Alex Stevenson (27.11.2013) – Now, the idea is not so farfetched for someone who went to school in a town, where all the hearts of the Bavarian kings are buried – or rather should I say, (did) ‘hang around’. Though for a late medieval king with religious beliefs of the untouchable sanctity of the human body, that is not the best of choices. Why else do you think they cut off limbs to prevent criminals from getting into heaven? I hope, wherever they bury him, they bury at least a bit of his ashes together with his bones – you know, the heart…

 

• TheDailyBeast (Blog): Times Leader Writers Can’t Decide Where Richard III Should Be Buried, by Tom Sykes (27.11.2013) – Now it is clearly decided where King Richard III should be buried. We follow The Times’ suggestion(s).

 

• Leicester Mercury: Richard III: High Court legal battle adjourned until 2014 (27.11.2013)

 

• United Press International (UPI): British High Court delays legal fight over burial place of Richard III (27.11.2013)

 

• BBC History Extra: Richard III reburial battle ‘could drag on until August’, by Emma McFarnon (27.11.2013)

 

• Mirror.co.uk: Richard III: 10 things you need to know as battle over his final resting place hits court, by Andy Rudd (26.11.2013) – Your essential starting point for looking deeper into the story of King Richard III.

 

• The Independent: Wars of the Roses Part 2: High Court battle over burial of Richard III set to continue as case is adjourned, by Adam Withnall (26.11.2013)

 

• The Guardian: Battle for Richard III reburial site on hold as high court case is adjourned, by James Meikle (26.11.2013)

 

• BBC History Extra: Richard III judicial review adjourned, by Emma McFarnon (26.11.2013)

 

• The Lawyer: Richard III judicial review postponed, by Joanne Harris (26.11.2013)

 

• The Lawyer: Richard III JR hits court before three-judge panel, by Joanne Harris (26.11.2013)

 

• BBC History Extra: Richard III: Leicester reburial to be judicially reviewed tomorrow, by Emma McFarnon (25.11.2013)

 

• BBC News: Court battle for King Richard III’s remains to be buried in Leicester (25.11.2013) – With video and opinions of citizens of York and Leicester.

 

• University of Leicester: University of Leicester offers free course on Richard III’s England (25.11.2013) – The course was so successful that all available 10.000 places are full this time. If you did not get on the course this time, you have a new chance to attend the next course some time midsummer 2014.

 

• Express: £30,000 down and now taxpayers are to fork out more for King Richard III’s grave, by Matt Gibson (24.11.2013)

 

• University of Leicester: Queen’s Anniversary Prize to University of Leicester for Discovery of Richard III (22.11.2013) – Royal recognition for the exceptional find of King Richard III by the University of Leicester. Well deserved! Congratulations !

 

• RoyalCentral (Blog): University of Oxford academic suggests how Richard III could be reburied, by Jessica Hope (22.11.2013) – Research into the way Medieval kings used to be buried by Alexandra Buckle could give essential hints what to do now with King Richard III.

 

• BBC News: Giving Richard III a reburial fit for a medieval king, by Sean Coughlan (22.11.2013) – Interesting presentation of the research by Dr. Alexandra Buckle, from St Anne’s and St Hilda’s colleges into Medieval burial practices.

 

• STV.tv: Forensic team that helped reconstruct face of Richard III honoured (22.11.2013) – Prestigious award for the forensic team that helped to re-construe King Richard III’s face.

 

• The Guardian: Why Chris Grayling should bury his appeal against Richard III ruling, by Joshua Rozenberg (15.11.2013) – The old battle between moral and money – true in King Richard’s time, true now. Who will have the longer breath in the legal battle, whoever has the moral right? Who knows, who will ever know, now that it is the matter of a legal battle?

 

• University of Leicester: ‘Beyond reasonable doubt’: archaeologists give first-hand account of Richard III discovery in new book, by Peter Thorley (04.11.2013)
  
  

  Mathew Morris & Richard Buckley: Richard III. The King under the Car Park. The story of the search for England’s last Plantagenet king…

 

• AnimeNewsNetwork.com: Otomen’s Kanno Adapts Shakespeare’s Richard III as Manga Series (03.11.2013) – Shakespeare’s King Richard III lives on in manga now.

 

• University of Leicester: Greyfriars Fine Foods launches range that’s fit for a king (01.11.2013) – Though I am rather doubtful that King Richard III himself came anywhere near such kind of food, here is the direct link to the delicacies: Greyfriars Fine Foods

 

• Dorset Echo: King Richard III stayed at Bridport (01.11.2013) – Arthur Woodgate discovered Bridport’s connections with Richard III. To celebrate this connection, Philippa Langley and Michael Jones will visit Bridport on Thursday November 14 (The Bull at 2.30pm) as part of the Bridport Literary Festival.

 

• Lambeth Palace Library: Books and their Owners II: The Hours of Richard III (11.10.2013)