See also Special Events.
The Three Battles Festival is at the Guildhall in Worcester on Saturday April 26th from 10 - 4.30 pm. Admission is free.
Annette Carson's book on Richard III is due out in summer. Buy a copy from The History Press post free if you are in the Richard III Society! They give a price of £16.
The Gloucester Branch now has its own website.
Loyalty Binds Me has produced a DVD about Middleham Castle, the first in its Richard III Collection. The 45 minute DVD costs £20 including postage, and features a reconstruction of the fifteenth century castle.
I've put a link to Days of Chivalry on the Things to Buy bit of Other Web Sites. They make wonderful historical pewter items.
Details of a new book about one of Queen Elizabeth I's confidantes,Blanche Parry.
York Minster is offering the chance to Sponsor a Stone, which will be set into the East Front. Each stone costs £600, and you can spread the cost over 5 years or 10. Or you can send a donation to The Friends of King Richard III who have paid for two stones already, one with Richard's name on it, and the other with the names of his wife and son.
This year's twenty-fifth Tewkesbury Medieval Festival and battle re-enactment will be on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July. Hopefully the sculptures will be erected then.
Tewkesbury Battlefield Society has commissioned an oak sculpture from Phil Bews to commemorate this important Yorkist victory. The Battlefield Society is fund-raising to pay for the sculpture:
It is organising guided battlefield walks on the first Sunday of the month. Details from the Tourist Office or Steve Goodchild, telephone 01684 294939
The 1471 Fraternity. If 1471 people each donate £14.71, over £20,000 would be raised. Cheques should be made payable to Tewkesbury Battlefield Society, Sculpture Account. Send to The Treasurer, Old Tolsey Cottage, 4 Tolsey Lane, Tewkesbury, GL20 5AE, UK.
Planning permission has been given so now they just need the money to produce the sculptures! They now hope to erect them this year.
The eleventh re-enactment of the Battle of Blore Heath will be on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September. There are lots of photos from the 2007 re-enactment on this web site and some from 2006 on this one too.
This site about the Wars of the Roses contains good biographical information and accounts of all the battles. Thanks to Ralph Williams for bringing it to my attention.
Adobe Acrobat Reader This piece of software is necessary to look at .pdf files on web sites. Pdf means portable document format, and is a means of displaying documents on the web so that they look the same as the printed version. The files will take a bit of time to download.
The indexes to issues 26 - 50 and 1 - 25 of Dickon Independent on the magazine page are in .pdf format, as are some of the articles from the magazine.
You can install Adobe Acrobat Reader free of charge by going to their web site, and following instructions.
