Not just the identity of the man in the car park with the twisted spine, but the appalling last moments and humiliating treatment of the naked body of Richard III in the hours after his death have been revealed at an extraordinary press conference at Leicester University.
More than 500 years after he was buried in a hastily dug grave in Leicester, England, Richard III is getting a proper funeral. On Sunday (March 22...
Professor Kevin Schurer from the University of Leicester revealed that Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard III are third cousins, 16 times removed.
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In one of the strangest royal processions in history, the remains of Richard III progressed through Leicester, with the king making his way past KFC, McDonald’s and the rest.
Some of these foods were available when King Richard III was on the throne, others were not. Can you guess what might have been on your shopping list back in 15th century England?
Scientists from the University of Leicester have identified the remains as those of the former king, who died more than 500 years ago. Here's why this is really cool.
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At a press conference at the University of Leicester on Monday, a team of scientists and archeologists announced that a skeleton found under a parking lot …
On November 2, 1470, the world should have welcomed their heir apparent, Edward V. However, he had a lowly birth while Elizabeth Woodville was in sanctuary.
In one of the strangest royal processions in history, the remains of Richard III progressed through Leicester, with the king making his way past KFC, McDonald’s and the rest.
For a number of years - and long before he realised he had any connection to an English king - Michael Ibsen would visit the National Portrait Gallery in London to take a look at the famous portrait
Dr John Ashdown-Hill claims tests done on remains believed to be the princes – known as the ‘bones in the urn’ – show they are unlikely to have any genetic link to the Plantagenet king.
Margaret of York, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy had every reason to want King Henry VII of England dethroned. Her Yorkist family had lost the throne when the Lancastrian Earl Henry Tudor won the Batt…
by Frank E Earp Unless you have been living on another planet for the last three years, then you could not have failed to have noticed the World wide media attention given to what began in Septembe…
He's also playing Richard III in an adaption of The Hollow Crown. How incredibly meta.
A book that was given to Richard III (inset) while he was still a young teenager has been rediscovered and has gone on public display for the first time in Wiltshire.
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As I hurried into the library for my assigned period at Glendale High School, my friend, fellow reader and the librarian where I taught English hailed me. Well, perhaps ‘hailed’ is not the right word for a library setting, but Lynne rushed over to tell me about a new book she thought I’d enjoy. She […]
A visitor center telling the story of King Richard III’s life and death and of the discovery of his remains beneath a car parking lot is open.
Writer Jennifer Morag Henderson recalls a Scots author's attempts to rescue a long dead king's reputation.
The figure that has actually provoked the worldwide press coverage is not the historical Richard III but, rather, the fantastic villain that Shakespeare …
The results of these facial reconstructions may be somewhat subjective, but they're fascinating anyway.
