Conflict returns to UK battlefields Jul 7, 2008
In most cases the threat is of development; at Towton, where the slaughter of Lancastrians led to the Yorkist Edward IV being crowned in Westminster Abbey, the threat is metal detectors stripping history from the soil, the buckles, strap ends, cap badges, scraps of armour and arrow heads which map the arc of the battle. Of all the blood shed on English soil in thousands of combats, just 43 sites have been registered. (Guardian Unlimited)
Richard III and Middleham Castle Mar 19, 2008
He encouraged trade in the area and got a license from King Edward IV so that the town of Middleham could hold fairs. Richard was generous to the church at Middleham and during his reign, it became a college. (Suite101.com)
Shakespeare history plays, distilled Mar 8, 2008
1377: Richard II 1399: Henry IV (two part-play) 1413: Henry V (pictured) 1422: Henry VI (three parts) 1461: Edward IV (no play) 1483: Edward V (no play) 1483-1485: Richard III ... York rebels against the king and after countless battles and lots of chopping and changing, Edward IV of York becomes king ... When Edward IV dies, he is named Protector of young Edward V, but Richard has him imprisoned, gets himself crowned, then disposes of the lad. (BBC News -- UK)
Queen Of Tudor Novels Mar 2, 2008
" Gregory says she's thinking of shifting her sights from the Tudors to the Plantagenets, including Edward IV and his evil (or unjustly maligned, depending on who you listen to) brother Richard III. But this year will see the publication of "The Other Queen," about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her imprisonment in England. "I find that books with 'other' and 'queen' in the title," she says, "tend to do phenomenally well. " THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (PG-13) opened this weekend at Bay Area theaters.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Lethal power plays in 'Richard III' Feb 5, 2008
Moriarty backs up the action a bit so that the play opens not in the court of King Edward IV, but with the battle to grab the crown and subsequent murder of his predecessor, King Henry VI, and his son ... Rather than the hunchback of history, though, Moriarty suggests injuries Richard sustained in the battle to make Edward IV king have turned him into "a shapeless infection of a man." But the leg brace and sling McEleney wears throughout the play don't quite create the same effect of a physical... (Boston Globe)
Take a peek inside Fox's 'Jane Boleyn' Jan 22, 2008
Alice's brother, a previous Lord Morley, died in Flanders fighting for Edward IV. However, while he had died a hero, he also died without children so his entire estate went to Alice. Girls sometimes had their uses. (USA Today -- Life)
Tales from the Tower of London Dec 2, 2007
Among others who gave up their heads in the tower s sloping courtyard were Baron Hastings, an adviser to Edward IV who was executed by Edward s successor; Lady Jane Grey, queen for nine days; and the Earl of Essex, a traitorous favorite of the first Queen Elizabeth. It was considered a benevolence to be dispatched within the fortress s confines, away from the baying crowds on Tower Hill, about 200 yards from the entrance at Middle Tower. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Shakespeare's Richard III Oct 5, 2007
His treacheries include, variously: the arrest and murder of his brother, the murder of his (unwilling) wife s father and a scheme that sees the late King Edward IV s son (also Richard s nephew) declared a bastard in order that Richard himself be petitioned to take the throne which he assumes with mock unwillingness. Richard then proceeds to ruthlessly and brutally eliminate his remaining enemies, including his wife and his two young prince nephews, the late king s sons, who are held in the... (Suite101.com)
'Richard' Delivers Jun 5, 2007
" Rucker pushes his central "Wheel of Fortune" metaphor too hard, overplays some of his shock tactics and undermines the acting with some of his stagings. Reg Rogers, in his Cal Shakes debut, is a captivatingly self-deprecating, wily, feral and seductive Richard throughout the first act but seems to shrink rather than grow once he ascends the throne. It's a generally vibrant "Richard" though, briskly paced, strikingly framed and performed with invigorating depth in most of its many roles. To... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Tower of London: Visitor Guide Feb 21, 2007
In 1483 the two sons of Edward IV (Richard and the uncrowned boy king Edward V) were put in the tower by Richard of Gloucester. The two princes were never seen again, Richard of Gloucester was crowned King Richard III, and the skeletons of two young children were found in 1674 buried under the stairs of the White Tower. (Suite101.com)
Best-selling British author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes to Escondido Jan 7, 2007
For "Ravenscar," Bradford says, she had wanted to write about 15th-century King Edward IV, but knew her publisher did not want a historical novel. So she took her main character, as well as the drama and intrigue surrounding the Lancasters and Yorks, England's two most powerful 15th-century families ---- and placed them in the post-Victorian era, at the turn of the 20th century. (North County Times)
Roundup: Audio books Dec 28, 2006
Barbara Taylor Bradford does not read the audio edition of her book The Ravenscar Dynasty, but the British queen of women's fiction reads a preface in which she explains she has included elements from the life of the medieval English King Edward IV in her new family saga, even though it begins in 1904. Nicely narrated by veteran BBC audio reader Ric Jerrom with the appropriate posh Brit accent, the story focuses on the struggle of charismatic Edward Deravenel to regain control of the family... (USA Today -- Life)
History's gripping when turned into ripping yarns Nov 6, 2006
On the reign of Edward IV she comments: All the old Troubles and Bothers about Kings Uncles began over again. For all the lightness of tone, however, the book is remarkably solid. (TimesOnline)
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Then he mentions his two grandchildren, a girl, Jubilee, 3, and a boy, Joseph Edward IV, 2 months. "It's great to have a boy!" he crows. (Macomb Journal, IL)
- David McKie Jul 13, 2006
Perhaps this lust for democracy had something to do with folk memories of the times when the town was tyrannised by the notorious Sir Ralph de Assheton, Keeper of the Tower under Edward IV and so feared back in Lancashire that Ashtonians used to pray: "Sweet Jesu, for thy mercy's sake,/ And for thy bitter passion,/ Save us from a burning stake,/ And from Sir Ralph de Assheton.". Yet what Ashtonians, to judge from my brief inspection, seem to prize most is their market. (Guardian Unlimited)
SCIENCE NOTEBOOK May 15, 2006
Edward IV, who reigned from 1461 to 1483, had a personal score of 6 but, with a brother among his victims, amassed a killing score of 0. 91. (TimesOnline)
Malaria breakthrough Apr 13, 2006
Famous sufferers: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Oliver Cromwell, Edward IV, Caravaggio and David Livingstone are thought to have died of malaria. Figures who contracted it and recovered include Lord Nelson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mahatma Gandhi, Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy. (TimesOnline)
Weird Weather Apr 7, 2006
In 1461 Edward IV was about to fight a Lancastrian force at Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire when his army saw a fantastic vision - three suns were lined up in a row in the sky. His men panicked but Edward took the sight as a good omen and rallied the troops to victory. (FirstScience.com)
Race to raise 750,000 to save a medieval jug for the nation Feb 22, 2006
Another possibility is his nephew John, first Lord Wenlock, a major figure in political life in the 15th Century who died in 1471 having served every king from Henry V to Edward IV.. Both uncle and nephew were closely connected with Luton. (BBC News -- UK)
Aussie 'king' to get Hollywood treatment Feb 20, 2006
Michael Jones, a medieval scholar, had found strong evidence that the 15th-century King Edward IV was illegitimate, which invalidated his and his heirs' claim to the throne. The royal line, he said, should have extended through his brother George, Duke of Clarence. (The Age)
