18 - 23 May at the Roundhouse in London - Two Roses For Richard III. From Brazil, Companhia Bufomecânica brings a breathtaking production, combining Shakespeare's text with circus, multimedia, visual metaphor and aerial choreography. The bloody events of the War of the Roses are vividly re-imagined in a glorious black carnival of villainy, corruption and seduction.
Adopt a boss in St George's Chapel Windsor. The ceiling bosses need cleaning and restoration and you can help by adopting one for between £150 and £1500.
Screenwriter Philippa Langley has written a play about Richard III and Richard Armitage is seriously interested in the lead role of Richard. Richard Armitage was born in Hinckley on August 22nd and he was named after Richard III, and he wants to play Richard before he gets too old. His fans have set up a web site to get signatures to persuade the producers that it is worth doing as there are enough people out there to watch it.
This year's re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury will be on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July.
Prints of Karen Sarkar's painting 'Melee: Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471' cost £35 each and £5 per print will be donated to the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival. It was unveiled at Tewkesbury Museum, telephone 01684 292901, or email admin@tewkesburymuseum.org.
The Clifford Household during the Wars of the Roses 1455-1487
The Medieval European Sword
Medieval Pole Weapons 1287-1513
The Red Wyverns re-enact the role of the Clifford family in the Wars of the Roses.
Roger Keech,producer of the acclaimed documentary 'Towton 1461', has now put together a
DVD comprising the original programme plus substantial extra footage. This can be bought either from Towton Battlefield Society (at a discounted
rate for members) or from RK Productions.
Real site of Battle of Bosworth revealed as being on Fenn Lane Farm, a couple of miles away from the Battlefield Centre. It's on land between the A444 and Stoke Golding.
Information about the re-enactment of the battle of Blore Heath. There are lots of photos and information about the battle on this web site and some from 2008 on this one.
Forget-Me-Not Books sells second-hand and out of print history books. Contact judith_ridley@hotmail.com for a catalogue.
Geoffrey Richardson's books - The Deceivers, The Hollow Crowns, The Lordly Ones, The Popinjays and A Pride of Bastards - are all still available from Baildon Books. Contact riii@richardiiiworcs.co.uk.
Richard III: The Maligned King by Annette Carson was published in 2008 by The History Press. The third edition is now available in paperback, and contains some more amendments/updates and a more comprehensive index. The author will be happy to supply this new material by post or email to any readers who care to contact ajcarson@telkomsa.net.
Helen Cox, who is Secretary of the Towton Battlefield Society's own re-enactment group, The Frei Compagnie, has launched her own website.
Annette Carson
Richard III - The Maligned King
Brian Wainwright, author of The Adventures of Alianore Audley and Within The Fetterlock has a blog called the Yorkist Age.
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.
