Posted by: Dorothea Preis in News
The March edition of the Ricardian Bulletin contains a note about a cheese called “King Richard III”. Apparently it is like a very creamy Wensleydale cheese with a wonderful mellow taste. It is a cow’s milk cheese with a mild flavour with a slight bite.
Wouldn’t it be a Ricardian gourmet experience if we could team up this cheese with some of our South Australian ‘Battle of Bosworth’ wines from McLaren Vale? These wines get their name from the family name of the owners of the estate, Bosworth, and remember the battle where “the last of the Plantagenet Kings, Richard the III, was slain by Henry Tudor, becoming the last king of England to die in battle”. This historic battle is combined with their “modern day Battle of Bosworth [which] saw us convert our ‘Edgehill’ vineyard to organic viticulture nearly 10 years ago” (Battle of Bosworth Wines website).
For our Ricardian meal the ‘White Boar’ has just the right ring to it. Such an international culinary combination would make a meal fit for a king.
To find out more about Battle of Bosworth wines click here.
And to read up on King Richard III cheese click here.
Tags: Food & Drink
Posted by: Dorothea Preis in News
The recent discovery of the actual site of the Battle of Bosworth made headlines around the world. It now seems that we might also have to rethink the location of the Battle of Barnet.
The Battle of Barnet was fought on Easter Sunday, 14 April 1471, between Edward IV, who had returned from exile in Burgundy, and the Yorkists on the one side, and the Earl of Warwick and the Lancastrians on the other. This was the first battle in which the then 18 year-old Richard, Duke of Gloucester, fought and some think that he commanded the vanguard. Visibility was greatly reduced due to a thick mist. This mist seems to have lasted until the present, because the exact location of the site is still being disputed. The reason is that so far no archaeological evidence has been found, possibly because researchers were looking at the wrong spot and had concentrated on the registered site in Hadley Green. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Barnet, Battles, Edward IV, Richard III, Wars of the Roses
Just a short reminder that this coming Sunday, 21 March, we will be commemorating the death of Queen Anne. We are meeting at 12.15 at the Duke of Gloucester at the corner of Frenchmans and Clovelly Road in Randwick. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Posted by: Dorothea Preis in News
Not much on the face of it, that’s why an article mentioning both aroused my curiosity. It’s on a blog called Conservative History Journal. The blogger’s political convictions do not come into this article, so any Ricardian, irrespective of your own political sympathies, can enjoy its message on King Richard III.
The blogger, who calls himself Tory Historian, tells us that he went a while ago to Leicester to visit an exhibition of German Expressionist works and also explored the city. While we know that the city of York remembered with “great heaviness” “our good king Richard [who was] piteously slain and murdered”, we learn that King Richard III also enjoys a lot of loyal following in the city where his body was taken after the Battle of Bosworth. We don’t know where the body ended up after the dissolution of the monasteries and it might have been “thrown into the ditch just outside [the city] in the charming way those Tudors behaved”. Ricardians can surely share that sentiment towards the Tudors! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Art, Bosworth, Henry Tudor, Richard III
Posted by: Dorothea Preis in News
In January the team of conservators at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, made a surprise discovery: when removing the Henry Hyde Monument from a wall in order to repair and clean it, they found hidden behind the monument the remains of some beautifully written English text. The monument marks the grave of Sir Henry Hyde, who was executed in 1650 by Parliament for supporting King Charles I and was erected soon after 1660.
There are several lines of a large textual inscription, which had subsequently been whitewashed over making it difficult to read but the good gothic lettering is clearly visible. Due to the age of the monument the writing was originally thought to be from the 16th century, when the nave was fitted out with high pews for people to sit in to listen to the ‘new’ sermons preached there. Inscriptions of the bible, the Word of God, would have been written on the inside walls of the building following the Reformation, having been translated into English in Cranmer’s bible. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Church, Medieval Life
