Richard III Society American Branch

Voice of Richard III — WORLD PREMIERE – ‘LIVING’ AND SPEAKING RICHARD III Imagine if you could see and hear King Richard III speaking his own words. Imagine if you could see him breathing, thinking and effectively ‘brought back to life’. On Sunday 17 November 2024 at York Theatre Royal, state-of-the-art technology will reveal for the first time: a moving, breathing, ‘living’ face of a long-dead king speaking his own

Loyalty Binds Me: A Festschrift in Honor of Peter & Carolyn Hammonds This special edition collection of essays is now available for Society members to order from the Yorkist History Trust.  Peter & Carolyn are long-standing members of the UK Society, having served for decades as the Research Officer and Librarian, respectively.  Peter is the author of several books, including most recently, “The Children of Richard III.” Anyone who places

  Two American Branch members assisted the Society in repatriating a rare piece of Ricardian history to England. As reported previously, the Society purchased the 1485 letters patent, with an intact Great Seal of Richard III, at an auction in Virginia. Liz Bateman, chair of the branch’s Tidewater Chapter who lives near the auction house, offered to keep the precious item in her bank’s vault until the Society could find

Announcing our second-ever Plantagenet Angel – Pauline Calkin! The American Branch’s Plantagenet Angel Award was created to recognize the support of our most generous donors.  In 2022, we gave this award to W. Bowman “Bo” Cutter of New York City, and this year, 2024, we are very happy to present the award to Pauline Calkin of Redlands, California. Pauline has been our volunteer librarian of fiction books for the past