#Phillipa Langley

[shakesqueers13]

What on earth is going on with Richard III & what does it have to do with Shakespeare? A somewhat chaotic explanation by me:

So basically okay Richard III aka Richard Plantagenet aka Richard of the house of York was a king of England in the immediate line of succession prior to Shakesepare’s birth, and is part of the War of the Roses tetralogy which is a series of historical plays by Shakespeare depicting English history and culminating in Richard III’s short reign which did not go well because he was killed in battle almost immediately.

Side note, Richard III is one of Shakesepare’s earlier plays and is generally thought of as kind of an early draft of Macbeth - many of the ideas expressed in Macbeth are also in Richard III, namely the killing of innocent children & the idea of killing everyone to become king. (But I personally prefer it to Macbeth because it’s the first Shakespeare play where the character speaks directly to the audience and explains his thoughts! So Shakespeare’s Richard P is very cunty and constantly describing his evil schemes to the audience. He is one of the only Shakespeare characters who speaks the first line of his own play which I think is pretty cool.)

But back to politics, Shakespeare had to portray Richard III as a villain because the current English dynasty, the Tudors had defeated the house of York (of which Richard is famously a son of), so he had to be maligned in the play otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to put it on before Queen Elizabeth. Plus Shax also just loves a good anti-hero I think.

So if you haven’t read it, one of the things that happens in Richard III the play is that Richard has both of his nephews locked in the tower of London and subsequently murdered in a very evil way. It’s a super fucked up murder plot, and since this is an early play by Shakespeare, the style is much more sensationalized violence & less poetic than his later plays. Richard III is an objectively hilarious play as are many of Shax’s early tragedies because they’re just soooo messed up and evil, but anyway.

So, flash forward to 1998. Richard III had been killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field (we think) but no one had actually been able to locate his body. There was a popular theory that it had been tossed into a lake, but no actual proof. So somewhere in England… a lady named Philippa Langley who is… quite a character, read a biography of Richard III, and became incredibly incensed about the portrayal of Richard as an objectively evil character in Shakespeare’s play and in history due to the pressures of the Tudor dynasty, and she set out on this lifelong quest to exonerate Richard III. Due to her field of study, she is now a ‘Richardian’ aka someone dedicated to proving that Richard was really not so bad after all. I have mixed feelings about her and a lot of the shit she says is abjectly ridiculous. All her quotes about Richard iii imply that she’s in love with him and she always kind of talks about having a spiritual connection with him. But that’s not relevant because she kind of never misses & I have no choice but to stan.

Basically, her spiritual connection apparently successfully led her to Richard III’s body! Which was buried underneath a parking garage in Leicestershire. And she gave the direct quote, "I knew in my innermost being that Richard's body lay there" which is an odd thing to say. But she successfully identified the body through mitochondrial DNA and it actually was him! (The part of me that works in criminal defense is obliged to tell you that mitochondrial DNA is pretty spotty and not definitive evidence but for the sake of this essay we’ll say it is). Anyway, that discovery gave a lot of insight into the War of the Roses and Richard’s defeat and was huge news. So after she found his body, she decided to try to find the bodies of his nephews to attempt to prove that Richard didn’t kill them.

If you don’t know, there is a lot of history here… uh… so basically there were two skeletons found beneath the tower of London that people thought were the princes that Richard killed & basically it’s been agreed upon that that was them, it was just a question of whether Richard actually had them killed or if they just died of sickness or being too cold. But this lady now says that those skeletons are not the princes and may be too old!

She claims that after Richard III died at the battle of bosworth, two children emerged who fit the descriptions of the missing princes & made claims to the throne in 1487 and 1493 respectively, but they were thought to be imposters for a long time. However, Langley just uncovered a document which supposedly evidences the princes’ survival and eventual return to England. It seems that they were separated at the tower of london where they were thought to have died, but eventually made their way back to England. So, she hasn’t found their bodies yet but she’s currently trying to, and if she could that would be HUGE because she has the technology to do mitochondrial DNA identification and she might be able to prove that Richard didn’t kill his nephews which would be big historically because what happened to the princes is a huge question mark in history!

The best part of this all is that in the article she wrote about this for National Geographic (which unfortunately is not free to read but I can send screenshots if anyone wants) there’s a part where she says someone asked her what she was hoping to uncover with her investigation and she said “well hopefully a signed document in the princes’ hands describing what happened to them and where they went” and everyone laughed. And then there was just a photo of exactly that kind of document pasted in the article.

A Richardian mic drop if I ever read one.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #dark academia #academia #Richard iii #Phillipa Langley #history #research

[renaultphile]

Phillipa Langley: The missing Princes Project

Remember the 'Looking for Richard' project which resulted in Richard III's body being discovered? This is the follow-up which investigated what happened to the Princes in the Tower. Will Richard finally be exonerated.........

#Richard III #Phillipa Langley #The missing Princes project

[ancestorsalive]

#ancestors alive! #what is remembered lives #memory & spirit of place #The Princes in the Tower #documentary #SBS On Demand #Royal Lives #history #English history #Phillipa Langley #Rob Rinder #The New Evidence #Richard III

[tudorblogger]

Monthly Reading Summary – December 2023

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#alexandra benedict #ali hazelwood #bella mackie #benjamin hoff #claire martin #gail honeyman #gareth russell #iain dale #jenny colgan #kerry winfrey #kj micciche #maggie knox #meg cabot #Monthly Reading Summary #Monthly Summary #Philippa Langley #phillipa ashley #Reading Summary #stephanie garber #susan doran #suzannah lipscomb #tessa bailey #thomas freeman

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket update! Round 3 matches will begin going up tomorrow. Matchups are in text form under the cut.

Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) vs. Almalexia (The Elder Scrolls)

GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal) vs. Helen Richardson/The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice and Fire) vs. Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Artemis (Greek Mythology) vs. Shego (Kim-Possible)

Morgana Pendragon/Le Fey (BBC Merlin) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) vs. Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Yūko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek)

Dr. Pamela Isley AKA Poison Ivy (DCEU) vs. Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)

Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD)

Han Sooyung (Omnsicient Reader's Viewpoint) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs. Vermouth (Detective Conan)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) vs. Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Eve (Biblical Canon)

Marina (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Wu Zetian (IRL History) vs. Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Catra (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) vs. Jasnah Kholin (Stormlight Archive)

Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Noi (Dorohedoro) vs. Rat God (Mad Rat Dead)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke) vs. Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samantha Groves AKA Root (Person of Interest) vs. Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher) vs. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) vs. Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who) vs. Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Aubrey (OMORI) vs. Dr. Olivia "Liv" Octavius AKA Doc Ock (Into the Spider-Verse)

The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

#poll #tournament poll #round 3

[historianroo]

my review of the movie "the lost king" and a formal request for more historian friends.

RIGHT SO: basically the movie starts with this iconic woman named Phillipa Langley relates to the fact that Shakespeare's portrayal of Richard the Third says that because he was disabled he was the worst of people, and she decides that she is going to set out and do research, because she feels like if he had been disabled he wouldn't have felt that poorly about himself

(That's a bit of a sum up, but it still hits the highlights)

AND IN THE MOVIE: All of these big fancy professional historians have come to these conclusions, without piecing it all together, which is a bit mad.

and this ameutur historian (Langley) proves that Richard the Third was not the usurper that history called him, but instead a true king who did not have his nephews killed in the tower

and it's just this further proof that history is seen through a very specific point of view, and that if there isn't enough research done in the First Place people will get history incorrect

because the king following richard chose to spread lies about him, and then Shakespeare made it worse with his play and so on and so on, History decided that Richard the Third was a usurper

And that happens in history!

OFTEN!

People decide that there are parts in histroy that they don't agree with:

and then they write it out

And then the historians that follow look at it and say "Hey this historian has a degree from such and such, so im going to trust them and just quote them without looking into it myself"

And so, Phillipa Langley had nothing to prove and yet she still went out and did it. Because she didn't have a degree to protect, or people she was required to listen to as to not upset anyone, she had a truth she wanted to share and find out so she did

and i KNOW

That it a very debated statement about whether or not "history is decided by the victors" and i do think it's not in every case, but there are many examples that say that it is in fact that it is something people do:

Like, Richard the Third

Or, like the freaking trail of tears, the civil war, the potato famine, the disability rights movement, i could literally keep listing!!!

Like, I get it if history isn't that important to some people, i do!!!

But it is there.

And it is such an important aspect of humans.

Even if they don't realize.

BECAUSE!!!

History may not be the here and now, but it is how we got here

And sure, there are shit parts about it, there are elements of history that no one wants to talk about, or acknowlede, or deal with ever again but there is beauty in there too!!!

History is so beautiful when you know how to read the sources right, and understand that you cannot put you're 2023 mindset into an event that happened 200 years ago.

History is beautiful!

#history #bit of a rant #if you saw me post this on LBMSWA no you didn't #my professors need to put me on a pedestal and rant about this #because history is quite literally my passion in life #my writing

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

The Lost King is a 2022 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope.

It is a fictionalisation of the 2012 discovery of King Richard III's remains beneath a Leicester car park. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Coogan, and Harry Lloyd. Director: Stephen Frears

Richard III was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty.

In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics.

The film, The Lost King, is from his own production company and explores the events of 2012 when historian Philippa Langley helped uncover the remains of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park. Steve Coogan plays Langley’s husband with Sally Hawkins on board as the historian whose unlikely discovery was the culmination of years of painstaking research.

Sally Hawkins stars as historian Phillipa Langley, with Coogan co-starring as her husband John alongside Harry Lloyd, who plays King Richard III.

Sally Hawkins as Phillipa Langley in The Lost King

The story was of international interest was Richard III, known as a bit of a bad guy with a curved spin, was killed in battle in 1485 and all manner of specialists became involved including osteo-archaeologists, historians and DNA experts to verify that the skeleton was him.

The skeleton was eventually found underneath a ‘reserved space’ in the Leciater car aprk and had suffered 10 injuries, including eight to the skull, at around the time of death. Two of the skull wounds were potentially fatal. One was a “slice” removing a flap of bone, the other was caused by bladed weapon which went through and hit the opposite side of the skull – a depth of more than 10cm (4ins).

The Lost King, tells the remarkable true story of how an ordinary woman which discovered the long-lost remains of King Richard III in a Leicester car park. In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester.

The release will coincide with the 10th anniversary of the incredible discovery. The official synopsis provided by Pathé reads: "In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester.

Stephen Frears directs from a screenplay by Coogan and his regular co-writer Jeff Pope. The trio previously worked together on another based-on-real-events feature, Philomena, in 2013 which earned four Oscar nominations including two for Coogan as writer and producer. It has been reported that the excavation scenes would be recreated at Newtongrange, at the National Mining Museum’s Lady Victoria Colliery.

Archaeologists working in a trench in the playground of the former Alderman Newton's School, on the site of the Greyfriars Church, in September 2012

The Lost King is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history.

The Lost King will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 7th October 2022.

Richard III Society member Philippa Langley is a British writer who is best known for her contribution leading to the exhumation of Richard III in 2012.

#KingRichardIII #PhilippaLangley #HouseofYork #Plantagenetdynasty #RichardIIISociety #Edinburgh #TheLostKing #Leicester #SallyHawkins #SteveCoogan

#Youtube

[albionscastle]

Bosworth

Elizabeth had once travelled in time, back to the Wars of the Roses and tried to change the history of Richard III, to no avail. She eventually lives out her life in the present day and this is her last day on Earth. In the bigger story she falls in love with him and he marries her instead of Anne Neville.

*I am a giant history nerd and the Wars of the Roses is one of my favorite periods. I've always thought Richard III was maligned and honestly I'm quite salty at Shakespere, Thomas Moore, and all the Tudors. When Phillipa Langley and her team announced the discovery of his body I ate it up. It was an obsession to the point where I own 20 books on the subject. I started writing a larger work as a historical what if but eventually abandoned it because real life sucks. I was reading an interview with Richard Armitage the other day where he said that Richard III was his dream role to play and I got inspired to face claim him as my Richard. (Keeping in mind that Aneurin Barnard's performance in the White Queen was phenomenal). Honestly I would love to have him play an AU Richard who got to live after Bosworth. This scene is meant to be the epilogue for the story I was writing that I hope I can get back to...I still have all my notes and research and I hope that this will get me inspired enough to complete it.

Trigger warning for death, violence, blood and gore.

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EPILOGUE BOSWORTH

It has become hard to walk now, but I do it anyway. My bones and body are frail and withering with age and I honestly don’t know how I’ve lived so long. My son is grandfather himself now and he helps me across the uneven ground toward the tree line. I see in him what his father could have become, I see a man whose life he would have been proud of, he has dedicated his life to preserving places like this, places sacred to a man he will never know. He knows who his father is, I never lied to my son and he accepted it as fact, for sixty long years he is the only person to know the truth.

I never left Leicestershire again. Not for good. The items I had with me on my return had served me well and sustained me all these years, providing a trust for my grandchildren should they need it. I still wear Richard’s ring, the one thing I could not bear to be parted from. I feel his heart beating through the smooth gold and I know he is still with me somehow. Every week since they finally laid him to rest I have gone into the Cathedral and sat beside him for hours, telling him of his son, his grandchildren and now great-grandchildren. I think I’ve become as infamous as the tomb I sit beside, I am even part of the tour some days, the mysterious woman who holds vigil and brings a white rose to the grave of a long dead king.

But never once in all that time have I set foot here. Until today. It’s August 22nd and exactly 600 years since the day he died.

The voices of the dead have always haunted me, Anne telling me stories of her vicious lost prince, Margaret and her pious nonsense. I hear George begging for his life, treacherous till his last breath. I wake at night shaking for two lost boys that I couldn’t save. Then, in all this noise I close my eyes and I can hear his voice whispering his love. I hear Richard laugh in my dreams and I can still feel his lips against my cheek as I drift off to sleep. My Richard. I’ve loved no other, content in the raising of our family. I have known all the joy I needed. I know loss and my heart still aches for him with every breath that I take.

He was the other half of my soul, who's leaving tore me apart and left a wound that has never healed.

For the past few days those haunting voices have grown louder and more insistent. They are calling me home and it’s time to answer. Which is why I have come here.

I think that my son understands, in his heart he knows and he has brought me anyway. He stands beside me, tears in his eyes as he surveys the land. For a moment I see him once more as a young man, a carbon copy of his father and my breath catches. I kept him safe, he never knew the horror of battle or the politics of Kings, he has lived the life that Richard never could.

Stepping forward a strange electric sensation assaulting me through the sole of my foot. I am overwhelmed with dizziness and clutch at Rick’s arm.

“This is it.” I whisper. “It was here.”

He nods and kisses my cheek, we have discussed what happens here today.

“I love you mum.” he holds me close and I allow myself to grieve my loss of him for a moment.

“I love you too, and I’ll be watching over you always.”

My strong son, with his father’s courage walks away from me with his head held high.

I am alone on the battlefield.

I feel the energy of the place seeping into my bones from the soil. This fertile field, rich with the blood of the slain. A chill washes over me and I shudder, a great evil was done here and it has haunted the place ever since.

With a deep breath I close my eyes and simply feel. Like the voices of my ghosts I hear the whispering of men, the jingling of armor and the snorts of horses. The air around me charges with energy, the tension and fear thickening the atmosphere. The ground rumbles beneath me and the thunderous battle cry of 1600 men shakes me to the core. I can feel the battle beginning through the earth, the pain and fear of those who fall, I smell sweat, metal, blood and dirt.

I know what I will see when I open my eyes so I try to hold them closed, but I can’t escape what is meant. I must stand here, on this ground and live this moment. A moment lost in time for half a millenia. I have to because he is waiting.

I force my eyes open to see a changed world, there is no peaceful green field, but rather a boggy mess of mud and blood and men as far as I can see. I’m surrounded by the unimaginable horror of medieval battle and I stand frozen in fear as it unfolds around me.

Men fall, screaming into the dirt as their bodies are violently cleaved by swinging swords and axes. The roar of bloodlust mingles with the pitiful cries of the dying. Brave soldiers called out for their mothers even as their insides spilled out into the earth. Sunlight glinted off armor and weapons as the terrible and final battle of the Wars of the Roses played out. I gasped as I saw men I had known, boys who I had coddled, all loyal friends of Richard’s. I called their names, but they could not hear me.

Then, from behind me I heard a call to charge and spinning around my blood jumped in my veins as I watched  Richard cutting a swathe with his sword toward where I stood. My magnificent warrior king, his golden crown upon his armored head, pushed through the battle on the horse I had given him. His teeth were bared and his eyes alight with fire as he fought his way bravely toward Henry Tudor. He was merciless in his battle rage and tears filled my eyes at this awful vision of my gentle love.

Go back! I wanted to scream it at the top of my lungs. Turn around and live! I couldn’t bear to see this happen to him. I reached out helplessly, screaming as the sword slice toppled his beloved Storm, sending Richard tumbling into the mud.

“Get up!” I cried, as he struggled to his feet, sword in hand and the enemy surrounding him.

Then I heard it. The rumble of horses and the cries of a new charge. My heart broke at the hope dying in Richard’s eyes as Lord Stanley cried out for Tudor and defeat was etched clearly on my king’s face.

“Treason! Treachery!” he yelled, bringing up his bloodied sword for battle.

Time seemed to stand still as he turned in a circle, surrounded by his bloodthirsty enemy. I saw his pain as he watched his friends cut down and the steely determination in his eyes. He wasn’t going to go down easily.

I wept in great gasping gulps as his sword sliced through the air, he was surrounded as the wolves closed in on him, fighting valiantly for his life. He took down so many that for a moment I thought perhaps there was a chance.

The blow to his head came from nowhere, the weapon, I couldn’t even see what it was, slammed into his skull with such force I could hear his helmet ringing. The metal guard sliced into his jaw, cutting him open to the bone as his helmet went flying away from him, kicked into the mud. A king without his crown.

I stood helpless, screaming as they came at him with daggers, slipping past his battling sword and stabbing at his face. Blood poured down the front of his armor as he fought on. The owner of the dagger that stabbed into his ribs received a slashed torso for his trouble and he fell into the mire, blood bubbling from his mouth to die a slow and agonizing death.

Still they kept coming and still Richard fought on valiantly, my warrior husband and tragic king.

He cried out as a dagger dug into the top of his head, fracturing his skull and, falling to his knees he roared like a caged lion, his face covered in blood and filth. I leapt toward him as though I could spare him this pain and death by shielding him with my own body. I would have died in his place if I could have, anything to spare him from this horror. He was kneeling in the mud searching for his sword as the blow came from behind, he never even saw it coming as the sword sliced over the back of his head. Blood and hair flew in an arc as he slumped forward.

“Richard!” I ran through the ghosts of the battlefield, throwing myself into the dirt.

He still drew breath, his eyes open and dull with pain, tears streaking down his cheeks.

“Elizabeth.” he whispered as the killing blow finally came, the spike of the halbert drilling into his brain with a dull thud.

Richard’s body spasmed but he never gave them the satisfaction of hearing him cry out.

It took only seconds for him to die, for the promise of his life to drain out of his eyes. The Tudor vultures wasted no time in stripping him of anything that might have value. All I could do was cry as they laughed at his naked body, making sport of his curved back.

They took his crown and gave it to the vile Tudor boy but I didn’t move, I had no desire to see them cheer for their murderous new king. I cared for nothing but Richard and the swelling, burning agony of my own heart. The world seemed to spin, tilting and whirling around me as I lost my breath, my sense and my conscious thought. I tried to cling to his body, to touch him and to let his soul know he wasn’t alone, but even this was denied me.

“Elizabeth.”

My eyes opened, blinking in the sunlight, the sounds of battle gone, as was the smell of death. I lay on my back in the green grass of Bosworth with the sky blue overhead and the sun warm on my face. I felt heavy with Grief, my heart aching for Richard’s final moments, the memory of his voice a whisper in the wind.

“Elizabeth.” I saw a figure standing over me, silhouetted in the bright sun. A hand reached down to me.

“It’s time, Elizabeth.”

Tears slid down my cheeks as I reached out for his hand and as he pulled me to my feet I felt the endless sadness peel away and I saw my hand in his, no longer wrinkled and frail but smooth with youth once more.

“I’ve waited so long for you, my love.” his voice breaks as his fingers run over my cheek.

I step away from my mortal body and into Richard’s arms

“I missed you so much.” I sob into his chest, my arms wrapped around his waist.

“I never left you, Elizabeth. I was always here with you.”

He places his hand over my heart. I see the blur of our son as he rushes past us and Richard’s eyes fill with tears. “I wish he could have known me, that I could have held him.”

“He did know you Richard, I made sure of that.”

He nods and leans down to where his namesake and heir kneels beside my lifeless body. Richard whispers something in his son’s ear and I know he hears it. His eyes dart around but he hears no more. Richard is beside me once more and takes my hand.

“Shall we?”

I nod and lean into him, my lips brushing against his as tenderly as the first time he kissed me. We cling to one another as we fade away into forever, the words my son repeats sending us on our way.

“Loyalty Binds Me.”

#richard armitage fanfiction #Richard Armitage #Richard III #time travel #richard iii fanfiction #Armitage would be perfect in this role #tw: death #tw: battle #tw: violent death #tw: violence

[greatwise]

i don’t know if anyone in the raven cycle fandom has watched ‘the lost king’ (a very british film that came out this year) but this depiction of phillipa langley finding richard iii (yes the king richard iii) is exactly how i imagine gansey trying to find glendower

#gansey #richard gansey #the raven cycle #trc

[the-romantic-lady]

Hi there!

First of all, I'd like to say that I enjoy your blog a lot and, mostly because of you, I'm now interested in learning more about the Yorks (especially Edward IV and Richard III) and the War of Roses. Do you have books and documentaries recommendations?

Hello anon! That is wonderful! I can't believe I made you interested in them. Well, there are a lot of resources for the Wars of the Roses content. The main problem is finding what is reliable as even academic work often carries a huge bias and misinformation (ahem, Michael Jones). Whatever recommendations I make are unfortunately not completely accurate and feed into myths and ideas but combining the resources, we can get a better idea of what might be the truth. But I would highly recommend you steer clear from anything written by Alison Weir or Dan Jones.

Books:

Edward IV by Charles Ross

Edward IV: A Sourcebook by Keith Dockray

Richard III, the Maligned King by Annette Carson

The Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward

The Richard III society has a reading list with some very good works but also some questionable ones: https://www.richardiii.ca/reading-list/

John Ashdown-Hill's The Mythology of Richard III and The Private Life of Edward IV are also good ones (although there is a lot of conclusions made on little evidence).

The King's Grave by Phillipa Langley and Michael Jones is a good piece into the popular history behind Richard rather than scholarly and covers his discovery and bones as well.

Richard III: England's Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore (Possibly one of the least biased works about Richard).

Let me know if you would like some fiction recs as well!

Documentaries:

I would honestly recommend watch anything you can find on Youtube. I have linked some here but anything you find, watch it. There are some podcast episode dedicated to Edward and Richard that you should check out. Obviously these mediums are less informative than books but they are good for learning about the subject. You could also a free trial on History Hit and watch their Medieval Kings series.

I LOVE the People's Profile Channel on Youtube. They are well researched and balanced.

Dan Jones' Britain's Bloody Crown is on YT as well (but again take what he says with a pinch of salt and imo it's not very well made).

Some podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/richard-iii/id1564113746?i=1000537294510

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/32-edward-iv/id389246402?i=1000095458089

https://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/wars-of-the-roses-podcasts/

Hope this helped!!

[laniidae-passerine]

I respect her deep interest and the fact that her deep interest allowed for his skeleton to be rediscovered and reburied but I feel like someone ought to tell Phillipa Langley that Richard III isn’t going to date her :/

#she’s obsessed and i think she’s actually in love with him which is just a BIT weird #phillipa langely #richard the third

[meandrichard]

Richard Armitage one degree of separation honors

Richard Armitage one degree of separation honors

To Kevin Spacey (now Kevin Spacey, KBE) and Phillipa Langley and John Ashdown-Hill, now MBEs (via King Richard Armitage), in the recent Queen’s Birthday Honours. Congratulations!

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#John Ashdown-Hill #Kevin Spacey #Phillipa Langley

[admiralheywood]

Phillipa Langley is actually really dramatic, it's pretty annoying to watch this documentary with her acting like she's a few steps away from being unhinged. She makes Ricardians look like right weirdos.

#richard iii #phillipa langley #*pulls strange face*

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket has been updated for Round 2! Matchup list is in text under the cut. Round 2 will begin within a few days. The loser's bracket will begin after the main bracket concludes.

Betty Grof (Adventure Time) vs. Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) vs. Almalexia (The Elder Scrolls)

Maeby Funke (Arrested Development) vs. GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal)

Nico Robin (One Piece) vs. Helen Richardson (The Magnus Archives)

Nefera de Nile (Monster High) vs. Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body) vs. Moira O'Deorain (Overwatch)

Artemis (Greek Myth) vs. Tomie Kawakami (Tomie)

Rachel (Animorphs) vs. Shego (Kim-Possible)

Tabitha Scarlet (Scarlet Hollow) vs. Morgana Pendragon/le Fey (BBC Merlin)

The Witch (Into the Woods) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Klaasje Amandou (Disco Elysium) vs. Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb)

Sailor Galaxia (Sailor Moon) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) vs. Willie Jack (Reservation Dogs)

Galadriel (Lord of the Rings) vs. Charlie (Don't Starve)

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Tokiko Shigure (AI: The Somnium Files)

Shion Sonozaki (Higurashi When They Cry) vs. Yuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Laerynn Coramar-Seelie (Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited) vs. Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Jinx (Arcane/League of Legends)

Eva Ushiromiya (Umineko When They Cry) vs. Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek)

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses) vs. Dr. Pamela Isley AKA Poison Ivy (DCEU)

Reagan Ridley (Inside Job) vs. Kalina AKA Shadow Cat (Fantasy High)

Power (Chainsaw Man) vs. Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi)

Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD) vs. Fang Runin / Rin (The Poppy War)

Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) vs. Wu Zetian (The Iron Widow)

Emma Perkins (The Hatchetfield Series) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs. Malva (Pokemon)

Vermouth (Detective Conan) vs. Eleanor (Do Revenge)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Leliana (Dragon Age)

Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs. Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) vs. Gwendolyn Poole AKA Gwenpool (Marvel Comics)

Lappland Saluzzo (Arknights) vs. Dr. Harleen Quinzel AKA Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Rue Kuroha AKA Princess Kraehe (Princess Tutu)

Eve (Biblical Canon) vs. Ellie Williams (The Last of Us)

Marina (Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Sucre/Sugar (OFF)

Shodan (System Shock) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Arcee (IDW Transformers) vs. Wu Zetian (IRL History)

Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359) vs. Perihelion / ART (The Murderbot Diaries)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs. White Gladys the Orca (IRL)

Doctor Carmilla (Doctor Carmilla and The Mechanisms) vs. Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Jasnah Kholin (The Stormlight Archive) vs. Medea (Greek Mythology)

Odin (The Bifrost Incident) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight)

Beatrice (Umineko When They Cry) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. Eleanor Guthrie (Black Sails)

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate 3)

Noi (Dorohedoro) vs. Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)

Rat God (Mad Rat Dead) vs. Petra Solano (Jane the Virgin)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs. Cinder Fall (RWBY)

Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (M*A*S*H) vs. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke)

Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samantha Groves AKA Root (Person of Interest) vs. Shanoa (Castlevania)

Makima (Chainsaw Man) vs. Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Yennefer Vengerbeg (The Witcher) vs. Toriel Dreemurr (Undertale)

Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Carribbean) vs. Wanda Maximoff AKA The Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Mapleshade (Warrior Cats) vs. Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives)

Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) vs. Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Muu Kusonoski (Milgram) vs. Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Yubel (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Ponyo (Ponyo) vs. Aubrey (OMORI)

Dr. Olivia "Liv" Octavius AKA Doc Ock (Into the Spider-Verse) vs. Helena George Wells (Warehouse 13)

Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Nami (One Piece) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

#poll #tournament poll #round 2