The Middleham Festival is the weekend of 4 & 5 July and the Richard III Society will be there both days. Get your tickets now to ensure a place. Details at richardiii.net/middleham-fe...

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

A blast from the past! Back in 2013, Penn English Department PhD Candidate Marie Turner and Manuscripts Cataloger Amey Hutchins scrolled through our copy of a genealogical chronicle written to celebrate the reign of Edward IV of England (UPenn Ms. Roll 1066) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4mmhCoI

Can you imagine the Australian opposition leader to do this?

Peace talks. My @smh cartoon.

All he’s got. My @smh cartoon.

Once a month the Richard III Society presents a talk via Zoom, for its members. This Saturday 18 April is @euanroger.bsky.social of @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy speaking on The Burial and Reinterment of Henry VI. There is still room available.

Thanks JD. My @smh @theage cartoon.

The long wait is over and my March Bulletin has finally arrived!

The Middleham Festival is the 4 & 5 July & we will have events on both days. 4 July at the Church of St Mary & St Alkelda, there will be 3 talks. On Sunday the 5th, the Society will be celebrating Prince Edward of Middleham. As lunch is included on Sunday, prebooking is essential. #Medievalsky

If only a membership of an Australian state library still allowed you access to the ODNB! Those were the days.

Edward IV died on 9 April 1483. The night after his death is the setting for a rather fanciful story in Sir Thomas More’s ‘The History of King Richard III’. dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/r...

6 July. The Middleham Festival is back & we have a treat for you! We are celebrating the probable 550th anniversary of the birth of Prince Edward, son of King Richard III & Queen Anne Neville. Running from 11:00 - 4:15, this event is via pre-booking only. Details at richardiii.net/events/upcom...

There are places available for ‘Scandalous Liaisons’, the Leicestershire Branch Study Day on May 16th. It will be held at Richard III Visitor Centre, Leicester. The programme will feature talks by Dr. Lynda Pidgeon, @gemmahauthor.bsky.social & others. Details at www.richardiiileics.co.uk/news.html

Atlantic salmon in the Derbyshire Derwent.

Registration for the 2026 Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium is now open! The theme is 'The Rural #Parish in Late Medieval England', and it will be held at Madingley Hall, #Cambridge, Monday 14th - Thursday 20th August ⛪ #MedievalSky #Skystorians

#ancientbluesky #history #Britain #archaeology What have the Romans ever done for us? Obviously, the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads … But was a garrison self-sufficient in any way? Let’s find out!

This Saturday at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, a symposium on Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World. stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/smce... #Medievalsky @uoftcms.bsky.social

Siegfried von Westerburg, archbishop of Cologne, died on 7 April 1297. He was buried at Bonn Minster, where his remains were found again in 2017. dottietales.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/s...

Priorities in line. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Historical perspective Vs Trump’s vicious ignorance

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this. And thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

Getting ready for the Easter weekend. On Good Friday 1361, brother Thomas Rocliffe of St Albans Abbey distributed Alban Buns to the poor for the first time. Find out more about these buns and their relationship to Hot Cross Buns in a Dottie Tale. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/a...

Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.

For me, the Eastern Prussian part of Henry's Reise was of particular interest. There is a Dottie Tale about 'Henry Bolingbroke's Reise'.

31 Mar 1391: After a season campaigning with the Teutonic knights in a civil conflict in #Lithuania, Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) leaves #Danzig for #England #otd (NPG)

A tender 17thC moment caught: two women teaching a child to walk c. 1635-1637, drawn by #Rembrandt (BM) I like to post this image regularly.

This wreath of white roses was placed at the tomb of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral today. He was reburied on this date in 2015.

Keep calm. My @smh @theage cartoon.

The remains of Richard III were reinterred in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015. A truly memorable day for every Ricardian. A book by Rev Peter Hobson shows the Cathedral's preparations for the reinterment and that week in 2015. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/h...

I was waiting for this! Grab it while you can, it is a must read!

Sopwell Priory in St Albans was dissolved in March 1537. Find out more about this nunnery in a Dottie Tale. dottietales.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/s...

On St Cuthbert’s Day 1423 (20 March), Abbot Wheathampstead of St Albans Abbey set out for Italy. On his way, he also visited Cologne. Unfortunately, the information about their visit is rather limited, so here is a post about what might have been. dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/a...

New coat of armes just droppid www.bbc.com/news/article...

Backseat driver. My @smh cartoon.

Possum found nestled in with plush toys at airport gift shop in Tasmania

And another press release from @unibonn.bsky.social, this time on our new project funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de The Nameless in History ...and in English www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-... @woodjamie.bsky.social

On 18 March 1485, Richard III gave the chapel of St Mary the status of a royal free chapel. It stood in the churchyard of the All Hallows by the Tower in London. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/a...

16 March 1485. The death of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III and daughter of Anne Beauchamp & Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. Images are of her Memorial in Westminster Abbey near to where she was probably buried. The brass plaques were placed there by the Richard III Society in 1960.

Party trick. My @smh @theage cartoon.

A little bird sings its heart out in the bottom margin of f. 323v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4aG04yn

On 12 March 1521, Katherine Incent died and was buried in Berkhamsted, next to her husband. He had been secretary to Cecily of York. The memorial plaques of both can be seen in St Peter’s Church and are the reason for a bit of speculation. dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/12/27/b...

Goal! My @smh @theage cartoon.

Some may have just seen the Ch 5 The Princes in the Tower with a mention of a chain associated with Edward V. As was noted at the time of the original broadcast, the evidence about this chain was not new, only the interpretation & there are other plausible interpretations. See the Society's 1/2

Today is International Women’s Day. A good day to remember Euthenia, a Roman slave. If it weren’t for her impressive grave stela, she would be forgotten. dottietales.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/a...

The power of the book: the goddess Diana presiding over an assembly of women reading in 'L'Épître Othéa'. BL Harley 4431; Christine de Pizan, Various Works; c.1410 CE-c.1414 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.107r @blmedieval.bsky.social

The amazing two doors to the Pyx chamber at Westminster Abbey. 14th C. #ADoorableThursday.

What better opportunity than #WorldBookDay to announce the publication of our latest volume!? 🎉📖 Claire Martin's 'The Post-Mortem Accounts of Sir Thomas Charlton, d. 1465', is an important edition of a fascinating collection of #medieval documents. More info: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/03/05/n...

And another post about another library – this one is medieval rather than Roman. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/t...

First Thursday in March: It’s World Book Day. Let us remember that a love of books is nothing new with these posts from the Dottie Tales archives. First up a Roman library: dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/r...