Our day-long mini-conference on 15 May included reviews of several books. One of them was Peter A Hancock’s Richard III and the Murder in the Tower. If you missed the conference, you can read it here.
Tags: Books, Contemporaries, Richard III
Posts Tagged ‘Contemporaries’
Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire – New Town with Roman and Medieval Roots
Before migrating to Australia, we lived for 5 years in Welwyn Garden City, where I had spent a memorable year as a German assistant in 1980/81. Welwyn Garden City is in Hertfordshire, so I started wondering what Ricardian or Yorkist connections I could discover in that county and these will be discussed over time.
But I would like to start with Welwyn Garden City itself. On a purely personal level the town is of great Ricardian relevance: In autumn 1980 I bought in what was then the Welwyn Department Store (now part of the John Lewis Partnership) my copy of Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, so you could say that was where my obsession with this king and the period began. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Contemporaries, Hertfordshire
