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Was Richard III born on 2 October or 11 October?
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Like Father, Like Son
Richard and Anne
Richard III and St Ninian
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A Radical Richard III?
von Popplau’s Day with King Richard
1471, the year that made Richard
Richard III and York
Richard and Anne -‘Childhood Sweethearts’?
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King Richard’s Tomb at Leicester
Richard III and the Tomb of Henry VI
Richard III and Medieval Battlefields
Following in Richard’s footsteps
Richard and the Wydeviles
Richard III’s Legacy at Sudeley Castle & Gardens
The King’s DNA: whole genome sequencing of Richard III
Richard III: The Isotope Analysis
Richard III: Scoliosis, Pulmonary Disease and Historical Data
Richard III’s Intestinal Infection – Fact v Fiction
Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Carlisle Castle
Will Richard’s genes reveal the King’s evil?
Richard’s Family
The Children of Richard III
Katherine Plantagenet, Countess of Huntingdon
The Legitimacy of Edward IV
Cecily, Duchess of York: the Name of the Rose & other myths
In the Service of Cecily, Duchess of York
The Third Plantagenet
The Disputed Birthplace of Margaret of York
Margaret of York
Richard of Conisbrough: Grandfather of Two Kings
Was Elizabeth Woodville born in 1437?
Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
The Search for the mtDNA of the ‘Princes’
Joan of Kent – ‘mother of the Wars of the Roses’
Richard III and his Beaufort Legacy
The Lady of Warblington
The short life of Henry Pole the Younger
The Mortimers: ancestors of the Yorkist kings
Parallel Lives: Roger Mortimer and Richard III
Richard III: Set Texts
Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field
The Crowland Chronicle Continuations 1459-1486
The York House Books 1461-1490
Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law
Richard the Third
The Hours of Richard III
Achievements of Richard III
The Embrace of the English Language
The Council of the North
Richard the Just
The King of Soul
Hark the Heralds
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The Tyrell Confession: Fact or Fiction?
Eleanor Matters
William Hobbys, Physician & Surgeon to Yorkist Kings
The Legacy of the ‘infamous’ Ralph Shaa
Margaret Beaufort’s List
The Life and Reputation of Elizabeth ‘Jane’ Shore
Edmund and Jasper – Beaufort Brothers?
William Alyngton, Chief Cupbearer to Richard III
The ‘Old Countess of Desmond’
Philippe De Commynes and the Pre-Contract
Thomas Langton – Richard III’s Bishop
The Will of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
Cardinal Morton’s Skull
Anne Mowbray: In Life and Death
Niclas von Popplau: Lost in Translation?
John Rous – the man who said too much?
Thomas Stanley, a Bastard’s Tale
John II of Glymes, Lord of Bergen Op Zoom (1417-94)
Ralph Rudyard, Reputed Regicide
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Shopping Medieval Style
A Little Light Reading
Medieval Gardens
Medieval Pets
June Brides…Medieval Style
And So To Bed…in Medieval Times
How Old is Father Christmas?
Whores and Winchester Geese – the oldest profession
St Bartholomew’s Fair and Puppet Shows
‘Laying the Bucks’
Nine Things for Medieval Londoners to Worry About…
Animals on Trial
Medieval Forensic Medicine
Where Research Can Lead
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Bayezid The Just
England’s Hungarian Ally
The First Lady of Spain: Isabella I of Castile
The Magnificent Lorenzo: Lorenzo de’ Medici
James III, King of Scots
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Sixty Years of the Richard III Society
Reflections on the First Thirty Years of the Ricardian Bulletin
The Story of King Richard’s Statue
The Debate
Was Edward IV Illegitimate?
Battling for Bosworth
A Series of Remarkable Ladies
Clarice Orsini
Antonia del Balzo, Countess of Sabbionetta
Eleanor of Scotland, Duchess of Austria
Fygen Lutzenkirchen, nee Bellinghoven
Mechthild
Apollonia of Wiedebach
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Yolande of Anjou
Abbess Ursula Pfäffinger
Juana la Beltraneja of Castile
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Kunigunde, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Bavaria
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The Missing Princes Project – A Case Study
The Extrinsic Effect
The Coronation that never was: York, 8th September 1483
Was Stillington’s eyewitness testimony enough?
The Whereabouts of the Grey Friars, Leicester
Richard III’s Book of Hours
The ‘valiant squires’ of ‘Sacred Easter Day’
How to Rebury a Medieval King
A Question of Evidence
A Medieval Christmas
A Christmas Celebration – Medieval to Modern
More than just a canard: The evidence for the precontract
‘For the Happy State of His Own Soul’
Notes towards the definition of a tyrant
Fighting the Battle of Bosworth 2018
The Plantagenet and the President
The Fotheringhay Boar(s)
Scottish Migration to England in the 15th Century
Putting Lambert in his place: early English Simnels
God is in the Details
The Significance of Furness Abbey and its Benefactors
Celebrating Ricardian Yorkshire
Ricardian Penrith
The Abbey where seeds of the Wars of the Roses were sown
In the Vigil of St Bartholomew: The Wills of Sir John Catesby
The Search for Richard Jeny, Esquire
A Matter of Time
Six Centuries of Prayer for a King
70 Years of the Bones: The Investigation in Westminster Abbey
A 15th Century medical charm using sympathetic magic
Two Thousand Men: A Numbers Game
Towton Memorial Chapel
Writing about Richard
Richard III and Henry VII: Shakespeare and Grotesque Drama
Pain Relief in the Later Middle Ages
The Daughter of Time, Not of Authority
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time & Richard III
‘The Book That Launched A Thousand Ricardians’
Ricardian Herald
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Francis Lovel – Departures and Destinations
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