Richard III
10 of the most intriguing auction items
A rare letter signed by Richard III was sold this week at a U.S. auction to a private collector for £34,516 – much less than its valued price of £80,000. Signed ‘R. Gloucestre’, the letter was found 12 miles from Bosworth last August. The Earl of Westmorland’s land troubles, featured in the letter, may have failed to capture the punters’ imaginations. But plenty of other historical finds have brought exciting tales to the auction table.
By Nabeelah Jaffer | Notebook | Friday, 5 April 2013 at 4:05 pm
‘World Without End’, ‘Chivalry and Betrayal’ and why the Middle Ages mattered…
With the recent recovery of Richard III’s remains from a Leicester car park and the subsequent public interest in his demise, it appears that television producers and schedulers have an important decision to make about the past. What period is more worthy of their investment, the history of the same old bloody Henrys, or those of the rulers that preceded them, the Plantagenets and early Lancastrians?
By Sam Gould | Arts | Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 11:59 am
Joke thief alert – Richard III
Labour MP Mike McCann’s Richard III joke was not original.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 12:43 pm
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By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Friday, 24 August 2012 at 10:24 am
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