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KRA Week 2013-1: The Beginning – Quiz-Prize & Historical Literature – Author Isolde Martyn

 
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♛ KRA Week 2013 ♛


 
The KRA Week 2013 begins…
 
Gratiana Lovelace already spread the word about KRA week. Have a look at her wonderful image of King Richard III Armitage !
 
We will have daily posts on the KingRichardArmitage website and a variety of posts will appear on participating blogs.
Our posts will vary from fan-appreciation to a wide selection of interviews here on KRA.
 
Participants of the Quiz throughout the week (till 27 August 2013, till midnight [GMT]) will participate in the drawing and can win one of our two print versions of “The Devil in Ermine” by Isolde Martyn. (More details here.)
 
We will keep you updated on this central page of the event, where all links and posts are collected:
 
King Richard Week 2013
 
We hope you will enjoy the event and the wonderful knowledge shared by our interview partners
and wish you a good and enjoyable time with lots of Mr. Armitage-celebration and information about and around King Richard III.
 
Best wishes,
CDoart
 
 


♛ Quiz ♛


 
KRA Quiz 2013

 
Procedure:
Simultaneously to this post, the quiz is opened up and the quiz questions become available.
As those who participated in the congenial quiz by quizmaster Servetus last year already will know, we request of you to enter your name and e-mail address to participate.
This is to ascertain that we can select a winner for the quiz, but also to avoid spam and double entries.
 
As we want to make the quiz fun for all participants, we have some security measures in place, so that you can enjoy the participation. This also necessitates a few security questions, but we tried to keep them at a minimum.
Your mail and data will not be shared, but is only used to execute this quiz.
 

Please note:
Quiz entries till the 27th of August, 2013 till midnight (GMT) take part in the drawing
and among the most complete and correct answers the two winners will be selected by random number.

 
 
We have two print-book give-aways about a very central aspect and turning point of King Richard III’s life.
We hope the lucky winners will enjoy this insightful historical novel by Isolde Martyn.
 
More about this book and its author here:
 
 


♛ The Devil in Ermine – Isolde Martyn ♛


 
Author Isolde Martyn
with her extensive knowledge about King Richard III and his life, has supported us here on the KingRichardArmitage website already with a presentation (interview 26.08.2011) of the Australian research group
The Plantagenet Society of Australia.
and also gave us an interview (14.03.2013) about her book about Jane Shore, mistress to King Edward IV, “Mistress to the Crown”.

In this interview presentation in March, I had already announced Isolde Martyn’s new book “The Devil in Ermine” coming out soon and reviewed my pre-version a bit:

I am currently reading Ms Martyn’s book “The Devil in Ermine“, which will come out shortly (Yes, I have a pre-version ;o)
And I can tell you, I can’t recommend it highly enough. I am in total awe of this well researched and gripping depiction of the decisive year 1483 in King Richard III’s life seen and told from the perspective of his cousin, the Duke of Buckingham.
The revolt by Buckingham, the reasons, the background are so well told that I really feel for the characters described in the book and see all the motives so well coming together and building the story. The book really has gripped me.
(I will let you know as soon as the book becomes available. – I know I am cruel here, stoking your curiosity, while I am already reading it ;o)

I am really happy to be able to have this wonderful book as our prize of this year’s quiz.
I hope the quiz winners will enjoy it as much as I did.
 
Isolde Martyn’s insightful and well researched interpretation of the upheaval and intrigues of the year 1483, the year King Richard III came to power and is betrayed by the Duke of Buckingham, is gripping like a crime novel.
To my surprise, I must admit, as I am normally hesitant with historical fiction, but rather read historical research. But Isolde Martyn’s fictionalisation is so very fact based and for me was such a psychologically understandable version of the events, that all the intrigues and motivations of the historical figures acting so wildly during the year 1483 finally came together and made sense to me.
So to all who want to get a clearer understanding to why King Richard III changed so much at the beginning of his reign and could not become the benevolent and magnificent king he could have been and would have had the ability to become, I recommend this highly fascinating revelations.
 

 
Take your chance and take part in the quiz to win one of our two print-editions of “The Devil in Ermine” here.
 
 


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Our interview partner today is well known here on the KRA-website, as Ms Martyn already represented Australia and the research association The Plantagenet Society of Australiy here in this interview.
 
Today, we want to present Ms Isolde Martyn with her excellent knowledge about King Richard III, his family, background and the time of the Wars of the Roses in general, together with her wonderful book publications.
 
I am currently reading Ms Martyn’s book “The Devil in Ermine“, which will come out shortly (Yes, I have a pre-verion ;o)
And I can tell you, I can’t recommend it highly enough. I am in total awe of this well researched and gripping depiction of the decisive year 1483 in King Richard III’s life seen and told from the perspective of his cousin, the Duke of Buckingham.
The revolt by Buckingham, the reasons, the background are so well told that I really feel for the characters described in the book and see all the motives so well coming together and building the story. The book really has gripped me.
(I will let you know as soon as the book becomes available. – I know I am cruel here, stoking your curiosity, while I am already reading it ;o)
 
 
But now I let Ms Martyn tell you more about her connections and research about King Richard III and her new just published book “Mistress to the Crown” about Jane Shore:
 
Why do you choose the period of the late Middle Ages? It was a time of hardships, especially for women, of fierce fights and wars man against man, of romantic knights, …
What is so very special about this time period in England that it can especially grip the interest of modern time readers?

The seesawing of fortune during the Wars of the Roses. One moment you have a man who is King of England, next day he is a penniless refugee at the court of Burgundy. Life could change in an instant. This means that a novelist can put a lot of pressure on a historical character. How will he or she react to being charged with treason? Can they regain their lands?

 

What did especially trigger your interest in the Plantagenets and specifically King Richard III?

I read Josephine Tey’s book, The Daughter of Time when I was 14 and I watched Shakespeare’s history plays.
Apart from Richard III, the person that fascinated me most in that era was the lady spy who passed through Calais. I was determined one day to write a novel about her. To do that well, I needed to go to a university that specialised in the Wars of the Roses and study the Yorkist era properly. Fortunately, I was able to go to the University of Exeter. Yes, and my novel about the woman spy–THE MAIDEN AND THE UNICORN–eventually won major awards in America and Australia.

 

The research about King Richard III shows that sciences did develop greatly and allow deeper insights, though the time gap between our time and the researched time period becomes greater.
Some things are documented quite well, others are lacking and gaps in our knowledge about the time partially are still great.
How do you cope with those holes in historical documentation for your writing?

You are right, there are few facts. We have to be open-minded about historical sources. For example, how informed were the chroniclers? Where did their ‘facts’ come from? Were they–or their sources–politically biased?
Yes, this lack of information makes it wonderful for the novelist. However, as a historian, I try to adhere to what is known. If Richard was at Middleham on a certain day, I would not have him somewhere else for the sake of the story-plot. I think an author needs to make it clear what is fact and what is fiction in a novel’s History Note and List of Characters. That is why Shakespeare’s wicked Richard III has had such impact. When people see something enacted, they are more likely to accept it as true. There is rarely a note at the beginning of a film saying ‘this screenplay was written for drama and entertainment, and some of it may not be true’.

 

How do you see the relevance of the current archaeological research about the human remains of King Richard III in Leicester? – For your writing, for the available knowledge about the time, for the interpretation of King Richard III, for Leicester, …

As the skeleton is Richard’s, knowing how tall he was, what he might have looked like or eaten before the battle is marvellous. For historians, comparing the physical evidence with the historical sources and legend raises some interesting issues. For example, the evidence of scoliosis. This means that the Tudor slurs about Richard’s appearance did have an element of truth. The portraits of Richard, where changes have been made to show one shoulder higher than the other, may have to be assessed differently now.
 
I should like to know from medical experts whether the scoliosis could be due to a heel wound at Barnet or Tewekesbury or from combat practice? Or would he have had the condition when he was a child?
 
As regards Leicester, if Richard is reinterred in the cathedral, I think Leicester City Council will have to take much greater care of the historical areas of the city, especially those beyond the ring road. These seemed very neglected last time I was there.

 

What do you do to prepare yourself to get into the mood of the late Middle Ages to write about the time and such realistic characters as you create in your books?

It’s hard to sum this up for you.
I read literature from that era, e.g. Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, and I pick out imagery and phrases that could be used in dialogue.
How would a man have felt at that moment in his life, given the occasion, the weather, what he was wearing, what was at stake for him, who he was dealing with, his health, what he ate for breakfast? It can be the small details that can make a character seem real. When Warwick the Kingmaker knelt so long for forgiveness in front of Margaret d’Anjou in 1470, did his legs go numb (do you say ‘pins and needles’ in German? [Comment CDoart: We say the limbs ‘fall asleep’]) Did he have to be helped to his feet?

 

What started your interest in the setting and the characters of your new books?

I was going to write a novel about Margaret Beaufort (as a villain) but Buckingham was like a little boy waving his hand in a classroom, ‘What about me, Miss? Write the book about me!’ So my novel THE DEVIL IN ERMINE is the events of 1483 from Buckingham’s point of view. I hope to have it up as an e-book very soon but there have been some hitches in getting the format right.
MISTRESS TO THE CROWN came out in Australian shops in February and will be available soon in Germany and the U.K. I wanted to write about a woman who was at the heart of events in Yorkist England. Mistress Shore, King Edward’s lover, was perfect. No one had written a novel yet about the real Mistress Shore. Her name was Elizabeth Lambard and she was the daughter of a wealthy alderman, who was Sheriff of London and a supporter of the house of York.

 
 


 
 
More details about Ms Martyn’s latest book publication “Mistress to the Crown“:
 
Mistress to the Crown by Isolde Martyn
Mistress to the Crown

About Jane Shore, mistress to King Edward IV’s and involved in an intrigue against King Richard III, and her struggle for freedom.
 

 
 

Isolde Martyn online:

 
www.isoldemartyn.com
 
Amazon.com-Author’s page
 
 


 
 
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Interview with Isolde Martyn (Plantagenet Society of Australia)

 

Plantagenet Society of Australia

 

King Richard III is a topic of research societies worldwide and all the interest he can evoke, shows us that his fate still can stir us today.
Our focus in today’s article lies on a research society far away from Richard III’s home country England.

 

Our special guest today is

Ms. Isolde Martyn,

Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the

Plantagenet Society of Australia.

To give you more insight into their work and proceedings, we let Ms. Martyn tell us a bit about the efforts and events of the Plantagenet Society of Australia:

Yes, some of you may think that it’s weird to find a Plantagenet Society in Australia (no relation to its namesake in the UK) but many of the members have English ancestry and love British and European history.

There already exists the world spanning research organization of the Richard III Society. What reason was there for your five founding members in the year 1991, to create a special group with the Plantagenet Society?

Well, for example, in the Richard III Society it wasn’t easy to hold a debate about Richard III and whether he had the Princes murdered because all the members were on the same side. It’s fun with the Plantagenets because there are many different viewpoints and that puts us Ricardian members on our mettle. One member of our Plantagenet Society, a retired judge, felt Richard was guilty on the grounds of ‘duty of care’! Arguing for and against is very healthy.
The other reason for establishing the Plantagenet Society of Australia was to gain an insight into the whole Middle Ages era not just the Yorkist era. Some of the people who have joined the Plantagenets would have found a society specifically dedicated to Richard III too narrow a focus.
I know the members we have in common with the Richard III Society have enjoyed coming to both societies. I should add some of them also attend the Jane Austen Society, too. You see, for those of us in Australia who love and research English history, we can’t explore castles or wander the streets of a historic city just when we need to, but belonging to a historical society brings us in touch with kindred spirits and helps us keep our interest fresh.

What benefits are there for your members?

The wide range of talks and topics offer our members a broad perspective. In this age of spin, too, the discussions on Richard III hold relevance for the present day. Who is telling the story and what have they got to gain? Whose viewpoint can we trust?

Can people, not members of the Plantagenet Society, join in on your events and readings?

Yes, they are most welcome.

Now, of course, we are eager to learn, what events and publications are planned for the near future.

One of our members, John Bryson QC, is researching London Bridge in the fifteenth century and will be presenting a talk later in the year. We are also holding a discussion meeting on whether the Arthurian legend impacted the politics of the Plantagenet kings.

Not only for our Australian readers, but also for us, living in other parts of the world, we hope you will keep us updated with publications and announcements about your work, events and research.

We would be delighted to do so and we hope that Richard Armitage’s project to portray the historical Richard III will be highly successful and attract interest all around the world!

Thank you very much for this interview, Ms. Martyn, and for showing us, what importance King Richard III still has in our days.

 

We have more information about the Richard III Society of Australia here.

 

Contact details:

John McDermott (Membership Secretary)
plantagenets@telstra.com

members.optusnet.com.au/arablts

Richard III – Event on April 9th, 2022

After the long pause in posting, it is an especial pleasure to announce an event that includes two Richard III-experts we have already interviewed here on the KRA-website.

In the New South Wales-branch of the Richard III Society in Australia, Isolde Martyn will moderate the bookclub-discussion with Matthew Lewis about his book “Richard III. Loyalty Binds Me”. He has various well known publications about King Richard III we linked to here on KRA already. He also showed his expertise with his knowledgeable answers in our interview from the year 2013, “History & Law – Author Matthew Lewis” (August 23, 2013). Since then, he became head / Chair of the Richard III Society.

Isolde Martyn

Matthew Lewis

The bookclub-event will take place on Saturday, 9th of April 2022, and is held online via Zoom. They still have some places left to join in, even if you are not member of the NSW- RIII Society. So please check for your local time, if you want to take part.

Book Club Event of the Richard III Society Branch NSW on April 9th, 2022

Please reserve your spot via e-mail to Ms. Marnie Lo (e-mail in image – and not repeated here to avoid spam.)

Local times, e.g.

  • Auckland, N.Z. 7 – 9 p.m.
  • New York, U.S.A. / Ottawa, Canada 3 – 5 a.m.
  • London / Belfast 8 – 10 a.m.
  • Paris, France / Berlin, Germany 9 – 11 a.m.

I am very much looking forward to the event!

All the best to you and stay healthy and safe !

Books & King Richard III

 
 


♛ King Richard & Books ♛


 
Christmas is coming up and as books still are one of the most favourite presents, I collect some reading tips here for you.
 
Not that I get through the multitude of new publications about King Richard right now – and some books still await me at Christmas – but there are new books I especially wanted to bring to your attention and recommend here, as I enjoyed reading them myself.
 
If you have books you would like to add to this recommendation, please feel free to either post them in the comment section of this post or send me a mail (contact form) to write and explain more about your recommendation and why you like the book(s).
 
Victoria Smith let us know her favourite King Richard III novel “The Murders of Richard III” by Elizabeth Peters and especially wrote a review for us.
 

(As usual here on KRA, earnings from embedded affiliate links on this site go to the charities recommended by actor Richard Armitage on his JustGiving page.)

 
 


♛ King Richard & Jane Shore ♛


 

Isolde Martyn – “Mistress to the Crown”

 
“Mistress to the Crown” follows the life and struggle for freedom of Jane Shore, the famous and influential mistress of King Richard III’s oldest brother, King Endward IV.
 
Her life never appeared to me as an especially romantic one, so a novel about Jane Shore coming out in a publishing house known for its extensive romantic novels instantly got my full interest.
 
From my previous comments about other works of the author Isolde Martyn, you already know that I adore her writing style.
Isolde Martyn also does not disappoint in this novel:
 

  • Her writing is fluent and gripping that once I began reading, I could not put the book down. Though I already know the story of Jane Shore, I still needed to know how her life and fate unfolds in the story.
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  • The historical research which went into this novel is extensive and far beyond what I would normally expect from a historical novel. So for me, Isolde Martyn’s novels clearly are in a ‘historical novel’ class of their own.
    But the astonishing part of this for me is, that the books do not appear like a historical lecture, but unobtrusively and fluently the fate of Jane Shore unfolds in a way where I begin to care for her, while I never felt very ‘understanding’ for her and her fate before.
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  • For all King Richard interested readers, of course King Richard plays his role in the book as well, though more as a background figure, but still actively influencing the fate of Jane Shore.

 
At the time of the first English publication (03/2013), we published an
interview with author Isolde Martyn (14.03.2013).
 
Now, the book is also available in a German edition:

(The print edition was not available via Amazon.de at the time of the post, but should be shortly. If you want to order it for Christmas, here is the direct link to the publisher.)
 
Links to the English version:

 
 


♛ King Richard & Art ♛


 
Author Matthew Lewis (interview of 27th of August 2013, with book links) in his novel “Loyalty” follows Jack Leslau’s (http://www.holbeinartworks.org/) research and picture analysis and brings King Richard III in connection with the Holbein household.
 

 


♛ King Richard & Research ♛


 


University of Leicester: ‘Beyond reasonable doubt’: archaeologists give first-hand account of Richard III discovery in new book, by Peter Thorley (04.11.2013)
 
From the intense research done to find and identify King Richard III, I must admit, I had expected a big volume of a book. The publication is a rather slim one, but so much filled with detail and information, that I am not the least bit disappointed.
Though much of the information and material had been published in the press already, the explanations and collection of image material and details known about King Richard III is unique and I am very glad to have this book as a valuable reference about the last days of King Richard III as well as his discovery in Leicester.
So though the book is not a detailed description about how King Richard III was found in Leicester – go to the publication by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones for that – I really can recommend this book for the invaluable collection of research results.
 


 

Philippa Langley/Michael Jones: The King’s Grave

 

 


 
Dr. John Ashdown-Hill did the essential research to enable the following work by the University of Leicester to find King Richard III.
His publications show the fascinating search for details so far missing or overlooked, but which proved to be exceedingly necessary to the final search:
 

 
More details about Dr. John Ashdown-Hill.
 
Just recently published:

 
Dr. John Ashdown-Hill also works on a new publication about King Richard III’s brother, George Plantagenet, the Duke of Clarence – you know the always irritating one where legend has it that he ended in a butt of Malmsey wine.
 
Announced for March 2014:

 


 
More book and author recommendations.
 
 

 
 

KRA-Week 2013: Thank You

 
 


! Congratulations !

 

to our KingRichardArmitage Champions

 

We have the winners of this year’s quiz!
The quiz remains open so that you can further try your knowledge,
but the book prizes will go to:
 
Fabi & Kathryn Barnes
 
To my great surprise, it was a point decision and not by random number selected from all the correct answers.
 
And I had thought, I had made the quiz much too easy.
Sorry! Solutions are available here now.
 
Quiz prizes are: Two books by
Isolde Martyn “The Devil in Ermine”

 
 
 


 

Thank You !!!

 
 

to all interview partners

 

and all our helpers and contributors
of the King Richard Armitage Week 2013.
 
It was a fantastic experience for me
and I hope you enjoyed the celebrations!

 
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KRA-Week 2013-7: Finding Richard III as a Result of Historical Research – Dr. Ashdown-Hill

 
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! Attention !

 

Last day of quiz-entries taking part in the drawing!
(Today till midnight [GMT] !)
Quiz prizes are: Two books by
Isolde Martyn “The Devil in Ermine”


 
 
 


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History’s new potential

 

in the discoveries of Dr. John Ashdown-Hill

 


 
 
Why a special article about Historian Dr. Ashdown-Hill here, during the KRA week, when we already had interviews and present his research work here on the website?
 

 
And other articles already covered the topic of ‘airbrushing’ Dr. Ashdown-Hill out of the story of finding King Richard III:

 
There was something I needed to figure out and I want to present some of my thoughts and results to you here.
 
 

Dr. John Ashdown-Hill

Dr. John Ashdown-Hill


Dr. Ashdown-Hill is an open-minded researcher, who searched for facts, where others readily followed legend – over centuries.
 
As the dissection of legend in the case of King Richard III was so very important, to even allow the beginning of the search, I cannot readily understand, why the one man, doing all the work mostly singlehandedly, strongly believing in the validity of his finds, does not get the praise he deserves.
 
It required already great effort together with Philippa Langley, to even raise sufficient doubt with researchers and officials in Leicester, to get their agreement to do a paid contracted search and give all the required permissions for the digging.
(And here a big motive for the specialists was that they could at least find other historically significant material for Leicester, to make it worth their while, which in the end caused their agreement to start digging.)
 
But why chose exactly this location for the digging, when the supposed location, indicated by a plaque, was so far away from it?
That was the result of a meticulous research of maps and sources about Leicester – done by Dr. John Ashdown-Hill.
He recognized, that some newer maps were inaccurate (the street drawn at the wrong side of the Greyfriars’ church, according to written sources of contemporaries) and the old medieval streets must have been located a bit differently from what reconstructions of historical Leicester so far made believe.
This changed the location and the area of research entirely and was based on the research of Dr. John Ashdown-Hill.
So, why is there no mention of this fact?
 
You would think, after all this research so essential for finding King Richard III, there should be a hall of fame for Dr. Ashdown-Hill.
Perhaps next year’s opening of the King Richard Museum in Leicester will remedy that fact and will give praise where praise so clearly is deserved.
 
We at the KRA website already started our small contribution to a ‘hall of fame’ here and hope to be able to contribute to set things straight.
 
 
One aspect, which especially fascinates me in the work of Dr. Ashdown-Hill, is his research, remaining unbiased by the ‘mainstream’ line of previous historical research and starting to get to the fact beneath layers of wrong and long traded interpretation.
 
This is a fact which exceedingly makes me happy about the research of Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and the finding of King Richard III.
It gives me hope for the art of history in its entirety, that with new perspectives and openness, history with its extensive tools and methods is able to discover great things about the past in the future.
History loses its dust cover and the strictures and rules by some self announced dictators and starts to get truly ‘researchable’ again.
 
 
So the real questions about King Richard III for me are not
will he be buried in York or Leicester or …,
was he a good or bad king,
was he a saint or murderer,
 
but that finding him was able to break up traditional perceptions of a story and a new approach was found and the truth behind it was revealed, after over 500 years!
 
This fact alone makes me absolutely jubilant!
 
History is no static entity any longer, but a playground opened up for new research. (While ‘playground’ not in the slightest means this is an easy task, but what history always has been, hard work and an enormous accumulation of knowledge of all kind.)
 
So go and search and keep your mind open for any possible result!!!
 
 
I hope to find out much more about the developments and events leading to the archaeological research in Leicester in the new book by Philippa Langley announced for the end of October 2013:
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And Dr. John Ashdown-Hill publishes his new research about royal marriage traditions and currently works on a new book about Richard III’s third brother, George, Duke of Clarence:
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Kindle version:
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(Go to the Quiz-questions here.)

 

( Quiz-Solutions )

 
 
Please note:
Quiz entries till the 27th of August, 2013 till midnight (GMT) take part in the drawing
and among the most complete and correct answers the two winners of the books by Isolde Martyn (more details here) will be selected by random number.
 
Procedure:
As those who participated in the congenial quiz by quizmaster Servetus last year already will know, we request of you to enter your name and e-mail address to participate.
This is to ascertain that we can select a winner for the quiz, but also to avoid spam and double entries.
 
As we want to make the quiz fun for all participants, we have some security measures in place, so that you can enjoy the participation. This also necessitates a few security questions, but we tried to keep them at a minimum.
Your mail and data will not be shared, but is only used to execute this quiz.
 
 


♕ KRA Week 2013 – Posts ♕


 

 
 


♕ Contributors of KRA Week 2013 ♕


 
(The links to the individual article of the event week will be added as soon as they become available !)
 
Alexandra Bourdin (La Bouteille à la Mer)

 
Fabo Laktuko (White Rose: Sincere and Simple Thoughts)

 
Fernanda Matias
Birthday-dream about King Richard III and Richard Armitage:

Birthday Wishes for Richard Armitage (Source: © Fernanda Matias, shared on Facebook)

(Source: © Fernanda Matias, shared on Facebook)


 
Fitzg (on the KingRichardArmitage website)

 
Gratiana Lovelace (Something About Love)

(Source: © Gratiana Lovelace)

(Source: © Gratiana Lovelace)


 
Judiang (Confessions of a Watcher)

 
Maria Grazia (Fly High!)

 
Michelle Jimenez-Porras (MyDebonairAffair)
A birthday portrait for ‘our’ king.

King Richard III © Michelle Jimenez-Porras

(Source: © Michelle Jimenez-Porras – at Deviantart.com)

King Richard III - Details of portrait by Michaelle Jimenez-Porras

(Source: © Michelle Jimenez-Porras – at Deviantart.com)


 
 
 
Phylly3 (Phylly’s Faves)

 
Tanni Tani – (Tanni Fanart)
– has a present fit for a king –


 
Traxy (The Squeee)

 
CDoart – (CDoart: Richard Armitage – History – Spooks)
– Don’t take her posts about our king too seriously ;o) –

 
 
 
 

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Individuals

Supporters of the King Richard III – Project

 

We get such a lot of support and positive feedback, that we want to name some of our supporters here.

This list does not include bloggers and fan-supporters, as we list them in a separate page on the website and in the sidebar with updated blog-news. So, dear helpers, please excuse, if you don’t find your name here.

 

Authors

(In alphabetical order)
 
George Peter Algar († 2012)
* Interview by David Santiuste

* Article (15th of February, 2012)

* Book “The Shepherd Lord

* Supporting the Towton Battlefield Society

 

Prue Batten

* Article and Interview (27th of August, 2011)

* Books “The Stumpwork Robe”, “The Last Stitch”, “A Thousand Glass Flowers“, “Guy of Gisbourn” (Coming soon)

 

David P. Elliot (with Red Cap Publishing)

* Book “The Clan”

 

Robert Fripp

* Book “Dark Sovereign

* Article (11th of January, 2012)
 
David Harpham
* Short biography
* Presentation here on KRA (16.03.2013)
* Article about Warwick, the ‘Kingmaker’ (15.03.2013)
 
Isolde Martyn
* Interview for Plantagenet Society of Australia (26.08.2011)
* Interview about author Isolde Martyn (14.03.2013)
* Book about Jane Shore “Mistress to the Crown” (2/2013)
* Book “The Devil in Ermine” (2013) – King Richard III in the year 1483, from the perspective of his cousin, the Duke of Buckingham.

 
 

Historical Illustrator

 

Matthew Ryan

* Interview with wonderful artwork (29.02.2012)

King Richard III's man at the Battle of Bosworth

King Richard's man at the Battle of Bosworth (by Matthew Ryan)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Book-Recommendations

 

In the last weeks, we have been presenting diverse artists to you, which specialised in pictures, animations, paintings, scrapbooking and drawings.

We also got contributions in form of

 

texts and books.

 

To present those adequately, especially at a time, where everybody is preparing for Christmas and is choosing presents for loved ones, we decided to do book presentations, to give you the one or other tip or hint for a present or your own reading list.

We already had interviews with wonderful authors and researchers like Prue Batten, Isolde Martyn and Dr. Ashdown-Hill. We will include their publications in our presentations and hope you will enjoy our recommendations and find them useful and an enrichment for your reading list.

We encourage you to use the buying options with Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk offered by

RichardArmitageNet.com,

where income from the affiliation is donated to Mr. Armitage’s recommended charities.

The embedded links here either go to links of the authors, their publishers or our affiliate programs with Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.de and are intended to give you access to further information regarding the presented and reviewed books. Should income be generated, it will be donated to charities recommended by Mr. Armitage.

 

More book presentations and reviews will follow in the next days. To give you a preview and first tips of interesting books regarding the topic of our heart, please see the following selections:

 

King Richard III in Historical Research

 

 

Fiction

 

The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
"The Last Days of Richard III" by John Ashdown-Hill was last modified: by CDoart
Richard III Beloved Cousyn
"Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'" by John Ashdown-Hill was last modified: by CDoart
Eleanor-cover
"Eleanor, the Secret Queen" by John Ashdown-Hill was last modified: by CDoart

 

For a full list of our reviews and recommended materials, please visit our Richard Resources and Products pages. (Will be updated and extended on a regular basis.)

 

We wish you a nice and relaxed pre-Christmas time and happy preparations!

 

 

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