20 April 2008
2008 looks to be a busy season
for Shakespeare's 'History Plays' and of course Richard III with a number
of stagings around the country.
11 April 2008
Towton Battlefield
Centre is about to open its new visitor information centre on ST
George's Day, Wednesday 23rd April at 11.30 am. Read here
to find out more.
10 April 2008
The Harlaxton Medieval
Symposium 2008 – Memory and Commemoration in Medieval England
This year’s symposium has two objectives: to celebrate the first twenty
five years of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium and, secondly, to explore
how people and events were commemorated or memorialised in medieval
England. Full details can be seen here.
18 March 2008
Who Do You Think You
Are? LIVE 2008, the Grand Hall at Olympia: Friday 2 May to
Sunday 4 May - The
first Who Do you Think You Are? was a roaring success last year
and this year's event looks to be even bigger and better. In fact it
is three exhibitions in one: The National History Show, Dosvoer Archaeology
and Military History. This year also the Richard III Society will be
taking a stall and will be joined by Josephine Tewson to help raise
the profile of the Society. Full details can be seen here.
10 February 2008
Stamps - Richard
III First Day Covers - On
28th February The Royal Mail will be producing a new issue of six stamps
featuring the Lancastrian/Yorkist monarchs, these are the Henry's IV,
V & VI ; the Edward's IV & V and Richard. The Society has been working
with two specialist producers of First Day Covers both of whom will
produce their own versions of a Richard III First Day Cover associated
with the Society. Full details can be seen here
22 August 2007
Interim report on
Bosworth 2007 - full report will
appear in next Bulletin.
20 August 2007
The Royal Academy of Arts
has a forthcoming exhibition
entitled 'Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007' which will
run from 15 September to 2 December 2007. This exhibition will explore
the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries
of London since its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the
present day.
Maurice and Shelagh
Bond MEMORIAL LECTURE - Windsor Castle before 1348. Full details
here.
Renaissance?
- Perceptions of Continuity & Discontinuity in Europe -1300-1550
A seminar
to be held at the University of Edinburgh - School of History and Classics
31st August - 1st September 2007
29 July 2007
BOSWORTH
RE-ENACTMENT WEEKEND CANCELLED 18 - 19 AUGUST
Due to the grounds
being water logged, the weekend events have been cancelled.
For further information you can contact Leicestershire County Council
by email
or telephone
at
01455 290429.
Leicestershire County
Council may arrange
another special weekend later in the summer, but there will be no re-enactment
this year.
Further updates
can be seen at LCC's website
as they are announced.
2 April 2007
York Shakespeare Project
casting for Henry VI
YSP are currently casting
for a major production of Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3. The plays are being
performed in 2 parts between the 12th and 22nd July in York Guildhall.
This is a rare opportunity to get involved in a very large scale modern
dress production. Parts are available for major roles for experienced
actors as well as many smaller or non-speaking parts if you have little
or no experience of Shakespeare.
We are particularly looking
for a small army of soldiers to take a few French cities and fight for
the White Rose and also a lighting designer. The production is guaranteed
to be exciting, energetic and a lot of fun.
Please contact the director
Mark France, on 07930 382643 or via mark.france6@btinternet.com
for more information. Rehearsals are evenings and Sundays and start
on 2nd April.
9 February 2007
Dorothy Mitchell,
the founder of "The Society of the Friends of Richard III"
has died at the age of 80.
Dorothy Mitchell established
the Society Of Friends Of King Richard III 30 years ago.
Mrs Mitchell, who was born
in York, had helped to raise funds towards the renovations of York Minster
and the rebuilding of Sheriff Hutton village hall through the society.
Dorothy was instrumental
in helping to renovate the stonework in the Minster and she helped to
organise a pageant to raise funds for the rebuilding of Sheriff Hutton
village hall.
Born in 1926, Dorothy also
went on to be a model and catering manageress at Bettys Café Tea Rooms
in St Helen's Square, York.
In 1997, The Press reported
how the society donated a window to York Minster to mark the 545th anniversary
of Richard III's birthday.
"Richard was a great benefactor
to York Minster, and the people of York thought a lot of him," Mrs Mitchell
said at the time. The window is a very simple and beautiful gift."
The Funeral will take place
on Tuesday 13th February 2007 at 2.30 in York Minster.
The Richard III Society would
like to express our condolences to the family and friends of Dorothy
Mitchell and to The Society of the Friends of Richard III who have lost
their founder and a tireless campaigner for Richard III.
5 February 2007
BBC 2's 'Flog It'
programme is an antiques roadshow type programme which travels the country
and invites people to come in and have their antiques valued and then
arranges for them to be sold at auction.
At each venue the programme
has a six to eight minute insert featuring something of local interest
which might be its history, a country house or an activity such as a
pottery.
In the new series which has
just started one of the venues is Leicester and the item of local
history is the Bosworth Battlefield.
'The BBC approached the Society
to see if it could provide a member to be interviewed on site. Wendy
Moorhen, the Society's Research Officer went to Bosworth representing
the Society.
This episode will be screened
on Monday 12th February on BBC 2 at 15.45'
10 January 2007
Additions have been made
to the 2007 callender and the events
visits sections
12 December 2006
Winter Bulletin
Details of the contents of the current issue of the Bulletin
are now avalable online
6 December 2006
BATTLE OF WAKEFIELD
LIVING HISTORY COMMEMORATION
- Thanks to the generous support of Wakefield Metropolitan District
Council, the 546th anniversary of the Battle of Wakefield will be commemorated
with a living history event at Sandal Castle, Wakefield, on 30th December.
For full details, please
click here
2 December 2006
Did Richard III really kill
the Princes in the Tower?
A letter, alleged to have
been written by Richard III, has been found at Mount
Stuart Castle on the Isle of Bute. If genuine, the letter would have
serious implications about Richard's part in the disappearance of the
Princes. The Society's research team has had the opportunity to examine
a photograph of the letter and finds that it is an obvious forgery.
Click here for more information.
29 October 2006
Secretary to the Society
Elizabeth Nokes has resigned
from the Executive Committee, and from the post of Secretary to the
Society. At a meeting of the Executive Committee on 24th October, Jane
Trump was elected in her stead and we wish her well with her new responsibilities.
The Chairman and the Executive
Committee would like to take this opportunity of thanking Elizabeth
for her long service to the Society, which will continue as she remains
a member of the Visits Committee, trustee of the RCRF and secretary
to the London Branch. Her work as editor of the Bulletin will end with
the Winter 2006 edition.
20 August 2006
The Richard III Society commemorates
the 521st anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth with their Service of
Remembrance at Sutton Cheney Church and annual visit to the Bosworth
Battlefield Centre.
17 June 2006
Juliet
Wilson MBE, in recogntion for the work
she has done for the village of Fotheringhay, the church and the Society.
11 June 2006
It was envisaged
earlier that the planned event by the Nottinghamshire
& Derbyshire Group to celebrate
the 20th anniversary
of the Group and the 50th anniversary of the re-founding of the Society
would have to be cancelled and this news was published in the latest
'Bulletin'
The
good news is that this is NOT the case now and the event is still
going ahead as scheduled, so please contact the organiser if you are
interested in attending.
1 June 2006
The photo
galley is now up for the 'Schools poster and essay competitions'.
21 May 2006
Reception
held at Barnard's Inn, in the presence of HRH The Duke of Gloucester,
to award the prizes for the Society's Schools' Competition.
Dr David Grummitt's recent
paper on 'The
French Expedition of 1475 and what it meant to those involved',
presented at the seminar held in the Tower of London on 25 March 2006,
is now available onlilne.
3 May 2006
The Society holds
its 11th study weekend. The theme
for the weekend was the Logge Wills
Nottinghamshire
& Derbyshire Group - An event to
celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the Group and the 50th anniversary of the re-founding of the Society.
Friday 23 June at 7.30pm My Kingdom For A Horse?
11 April 2006
Details
of the Harlaxton Symposeum now available
8 April 2006
The Society celebrates
with senior Vice President, Miss Isolde Wigram, her contribution to
the re-founding of the Soiceyt in 1956.
4 April 2006
A
report on the 'Trial of Richard' by Herb Moskovitz, Philadelphia
who was chosen as one of the members of the jury for the 'Philadelphia
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Lantern Theater Company'.
2 April 2006
Article on Anne
Neville, the wife of Richard III, by Professor Michael HIcks of
King Alfred's College, Winchester. This article is based on Professor
Hicks' book, Anne
Neville: Queen to Richard published by Tempus earlier this year
26 March 2006
| First
event to celebrate the refounding of the Richard III Society took
place at the Tower of London on Saturday 25 March 2006. For a preliminary
report of the event click here. |
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21 March 2006
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The entries for the
Schools' poster and essay competitions have now been judged and
can be seen and read here.
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New from America,
the THE TRIAL OF RICHARD III by the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers
for the Arts and Lantern Theater Company, find out more
here
20 March
2006
A report
on the Towton Battlefield Society and its affiliated re-enactment group,
the Company of Palm Sunday 1461 event to mark the anniversary of the
Battle of Wakefield.
Press
Release by the Towton Battlefield Soicety and the Company of Palm
Sunday 1461 about their guided battlefield memorial walk on 9 April
2006.
12 March 2006
Shakespeare
in Cambridge - From
7-11 March, at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, the Marlowe Dramatic Society
put on a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, the Wednesday performance
being preceded by a public discussion on the subject of King Richard
and the play. The members of the discussion panel were Dr Rosemary Horrox,
a historian and friend of the Society, Dr Janet Bottoms, a specialist
in English literature, Tom Cornford, the play’s director, and Phil Stone,
representing the Society. The meeting was chaired by Dr Jean Chothia.
17 February 2006
Graham Turner has an exhibition in April of paintings and prints, click
here for more information
Preview of the Spring
Bulletin can be seen here
News of the International
Medieval Congress in July (Leeds)
New Monumental Brass Society
volume: The Catesbys of Ashby St Ledgers and their brasses
31 January 2006
The new
Richard III Society site has now been launched and includes contributions
from some of the leading academics and historians in the field of late
medieval history. Features of the site include:
·
An expanded section on Richard III covering
all aspects of his life, career, family, and reputation
together with an in-depth study of the controversies
surrounding the last Plantagenet king.
·
Archaeology
·
The Wars of the Roses including all battles,
rebellions, uprisings and other campaigns of the period
·
Aftermath to Bosworth and the problems facing
Henry VII
·
A who’s who of those involved in the Wars of
the Roses – over a hundred mini-biographies
·
A new section on the fifteenth century which
will be expanded in the coming months
·
Online library of articles and books reviews
·
Bibliographies and contemporary sources
·
Historical fiction
·
An up to the minute guide on how to carry out
research into the medieval period
·
Details of all Society events including visits,
study weekends, lectures, and branch and group activities
·
What’s in the 2006 volume of The Ricardian,
the Society’s annual journal
·
Education and learning activities
·
New media section covering press, TV, films,
theatre, exhibitions, books and articles
·
Ricardian sites
·
Affiliations and links
·
Membership department section