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☆ Did Richard III Kill the Princes in the Tower?
  + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Amelia Nierenberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
For over 400 years, Richard III has been seen as Britain’s most infamous king — a power-hungry usurper who killed his young nephews to clear the way to the throne. In Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” the king tells an assassin, “I wish the bastards dead,” referring to the princes Edward V and Richard. “And I would have it suddenly performed.”But the king’s murderous image, drawn from history books and cemented in literature and lore, is just not true — or, at least, it has not been proven true, argues Philippa Langley, an author and independent historian. “Maybe there is evidence,” she said over a cup of tea in Edinburgh earlier this year. “But there seems to be no evidence.”
Persons: Richard III, Shakespeare’s “ Richard III, “, Edward V, Richard, Philippa Langley, ” Locations: Edinburgh
☆ King Charles Has Rewritten the Royal Script - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Miranda Carter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The most surprising thing about the disclosure that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer after less than two years on the throne is the fact that it’s been disclosed at all. Cancer is common; candor about the British royal family’s health, not so much. Over the centuries, like many royal families, it has gone to great lengths to hide the condition of the sovereign’s body. Healthy king, healthy country. The idea of a physically disabled heir was unthinkable, especially in a country where the aristocracy defined itself by its military prowess.
Persons: King Charles III, it’s, Hans Holbein’s, Henry VIII, Shakespeare —, propagandizing —, Richard III, Henry’s, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wilhelm’s Locations: English, Leicester
☆ ‘Bone biographies’ reveal what life was like for medieval commoners
  + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ashley Strickland | Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
“An osteobiography uses all available evidence to reconstruct an ancient person’s life,” said lead study author John Robb, a professor at Cambridge University, in a statement. “Our team used techniques familiar from studies such as Richard III’s skeleton, but this time to reveal details of unknown lives — people we would never learn about in any other way.”An illustration shows a typical marketplace in medieval Cambridge. Mark Gridley/After the PlagueThe bone biographies are available on Cambridge University’s After the Plague project website. Together, the bones tell a collective story about a cross section of people living in medieval Cambridge and the hardships they faced. “Everyday diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and gastrointestinal infections, ultimately took a far greater toll on medieval populations,” Robb said.
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☆ Adjoa Andoh reimagines Richard III's 'otherness' in new version of play
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] Actor and Director Adjoa Andoh performs on stage in the play "Richard III" in Liverpool, Britain in this handout picture taken in April, 2023. Manuel Harlan/Handout via REUTERSLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - When actor Adjoa Andoh read William Shakespeare's "Richard III" as a child, she was struck by how he was treated. "As a child growing up in the Cotswolds in the 1960s, it was something I resonated with." Decades later, Andoh is starring in the lead role and directing her iteration of the play, set in the Cotswolds and in which Richard's "otherness" is race rather than disability. She emphasised she was not changing the language or the text of the play or playing Richard as a woman, but "doing it in this frame and through this lens".
☆ ‘The Lost King’ Review: A Woman’s Search for Richard III
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
If only every harried middle-aged father trying to hold down the fort while Mom is out doing important things could enjoy a payoff like the one depicted in “The Lost King”: “Boys, boys! Your mother’s just found Richard III !”The woman is Philippa Langley ( Sally Hawkins ), today Philippa Langley M.B.E. after being honored by the queen in 2015 for her services to the United Kingdom. You may recall, as I did, hearing in 2012 a jolly little news item about how “they” found the bones of the slain Richard in a parking lot. Let the film tell you.
☆ Britain braces for winter of strike action as nurses walk out
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Sarah Young | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Unions are seeking double-digit pay rises to keep pace with inflation that hit 11.1% in October, the highest in 41 years. Union estimates forecast more than 1 million working days will be lost in December, making it the worst month for disruption since July 1989. Walk-outs in rail by RMT members, which started in June, are the union's biggest action for over 30 years, while for nurses, it is the first ever national strike action in the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 106-year-old history. MORE PROMINENT UNIONSThe walk-outs end decades of relatively stable industrial relations in Britain, compared to European neighbours such as France and Spain. "I think the world that we're in is one where we get more prominent union activity," Pickering said.
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