Ricardian Register
Since 1966, the American Branch has published its journal, the Ricardian Register. The Register is a treasure trove of Ricardian information. In its pages you’ll find research articles written by members on a wide range of topics, a chronicle of Richard III in pop culture through the decades, book reviews, and of course Branch happenings. We have a nearly-complete archive of back issues below.
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Past Issues
| Title | Year | Summary | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardian Register – September 2023 | 2023 | Missing Princes Project; Kings as Sun; Juana of Castile | |
| Missing Princes – Appendix E | 2023 | Appendix E of article from Sept 2023 Register | |
| Ricardian Register – March 2023 | 2023 | Medieval palaeography; Princes in the Tower; Board news | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 22 | 2022 | Missing Princes New Theory; Roxanne Murph; Arthur Kincaid, Reviews | |
| Ricardian Register – March 2022 | 2022 | John Gunthorpe; Dominic Mancini; Missing Princes | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 99 | 1999 | Neville: Edward IV; Bosworth; Margaret of York; Genealogy; Schallek Scholar; Classroom; Fotheringhay; Website; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 99 | 1999 | Hereditary; Shakespeare; Parentage; Malformation; Barnard Castle; Statue; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 99 | 1999 | Thomas Stanley; William Stanley; Betrayal; Paul Murray Kendall; Tour; Middleham; Classroom; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 98 | 1998 | Thomas More; Shakespeare; Tudor; Holinshed’s Chronicle; Literary; John Rous; 15th Century Conference; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 98 | 1998 | Colingbourne; Catesby; Lovell; Ratcliffe; Bertram Fields; Charlie Rose; Website; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 98 | 1998 | Towton Hall; Towton; Margaret of Anjou; Richard Neville; Edward IV; Shakespeare; Middleham; Dickon Award; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 97 | 1997 | 15th Century; Henry VI; Edward IV; Richard III; Henry VII; Pretenders; Trade; Schallek Scholar; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 97 | 1997 | Cicely Neville; Cecily Neville; Margaret of Anjou; Margaret Beaufort; Elizabeth Woodville; Sharon Kay Penman; Mystery; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 97 | 1997 | Kingship; Usurpation; Nobility; Edward IV; Louis VI; Nicholas Von Popplau; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 96 | 1996 | Pacino; Silent Film; American Film Institute; Harleian Manuscript; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 96 | 1996 | Mock Trial; Rehnquist; Shakespeare; McKellen; Pacino; Upper-class Englishwomen; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 96 | 1996 | Machiavelli; Chivalry; Absolute Monarch; Website; Schallek Scholars; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 95 | 1995 | Internet; Schallek Scholar; Piers Plowman; Teaching Richard; Trial; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 95 | 1995 | Margaret Pole; Ricardian Tour; McKellen; Dickon Award; AGM Report; Software; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 95 | 1995 | Paul Murray Kendall; Web Development; Ohio; Ian McKellen; Leslau; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 94 | 1994 | Middleham; Church of St. Mary and St. Akelda; Rous Roll; AGM; Shakespeare Festival; | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 94 | 1994 | Weir; Birthday; June 13; Elizabeth of York; Shakespeare; Clarence; Patrick Carleton; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 94 | 1994 | Bosworth Field; Ricardian Tour; Gaunt; Act of Settlement; Lancastrian; Yorkist; Illegitimacy; Richard Plantagenet; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 93 | 1993 | Laurence Olivier; Alexander Clark; Shakespeare Festival; Daviot; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 93 | 1993 | Curriculum; Exhibit; Middleham; Edward IV; Medieval Congress; | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 93 | 1993 | Healing Touch; Disease; Edward IV; Schallek Scholar; Movies; Mallory; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 1993 | 1993 | Edward IV; Genealogy; Daubeney; Beaufort; Tewkesbury; McKellen; | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 21 | 2021 | American Branch 60th Anniversary; Lambert Simnel; Mechanical St. Alban figure | |
| Ricardian Register – March 21 | 2021 | Origins of the white rose of York, Mortimer influence; Alicia Cannizzo, Schalleck Awardee; Missing Princes Project | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 20 | 2020 | GMM announcement; Jonathan Hayes obit | |
| Ricardian Register – March 20 | 2020 | Anne Lovell; Princes in the Tower; Dianne Batch obit | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 92 | 1992 | AGM; Bosworth; Charles T. Wood; 1484 Act of Succession; Reginald Bray; Theatre and Theater; Schallek Award; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 1992 | 1992 | Sir Thomas More; The Princes; New Orleans; Dickon Awards; Maxwell Anderson; Archbishop Richard Scrope; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 92 | 1992 | Bosworth 1485; Henry Tudor; Stanley; Sir Ian McKellan; Theatre; Schallek Awards; AGM; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 91 | 1991 | Exhibitions; Middleham Jewel; Cosmetics Middle Ages; Middleham Castle Restoration; | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 1991 | 1991 | Edward IV; Margaret Anjou; Anne; Sir John Donne; Shakespeare; Middleham Castle; Brothers | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 19 | 2019 | False paternity & the Wars of the Roses, DNA testing; Whodunit: Princes in the Tower | |
| Ricardian Register – March 19 | 2019 | Edward IV & Eleanor Butler pre-contract, legality of, Ecclesiastical law; Ricardian music | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 18 | 2018 | GIles’ Chronicle of the Lancastrian era; Royal Progress of Richard III | |
| Ricardian Register – March 18 | 2018 | Thomas Langton; 2018 GMM | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 17 | 2017 | Yorkist Monarchy & the Church; George, Duke of Clarence, disputes over Beauchamp inheritance & Anne Neville | |
| Ricardian Register – March 17 | 2017 | Sumptuary Statute of 1363, laws on diet and clothing | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 16 | 2016 | Thomas More; John Morton; William Brandon, Tudor standard bearer; Richard III intestinal infection; John Catesby | |
| Ricardian Register – March 16 | 2016 | Tower of London; Bylaws; Richard III as Admiral & Constable | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 15 | 2015 | Margaret of Anjou; Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville marriage; Richard III’s reburial; Middleham jewel | |
| Ricardian Register – March 15 | 2015 | Battle of Bosworth; Crecy and longbow tactics; Reputation of Richard III | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 14 | 2014 | Battle of Bosworth; Ricardian Nicknames; Annual Reports | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 14 | 2014 | Burial of Richard III; Holy relics; Philippa Langley | |
| Ricardian Register – June 14 | 2014 | Crosby Place; William Shakespeare | |
| Ricardian Register – Feb 14 | 2014 | Scoliosis; AGM announcement | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 13 | 2013 | Anthony Woodville; Richard III’s Parliament and Statutes; Annual Reports | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 13 | 2013 | Royal Progress of Henry VII; Richard’s Affinity as Duke of Gloucester; Katherine, Countess of Huntingdon | |
| Ricardian Register – June 2013 | 2013 | Greyfriars dig conference; Thomas More; Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham | |
| Ricardian Register – March 13 | 2013 | Discovery of Richard III’s remains; Francois Villon; Richard III and Anne Neville’s relationship | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 91 | 1991 | Schallek Deadline; Solar Eclipse; Crosby Hall; Brass Rubbing; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 91 | 1991 | AGM; Dickon Award; Schallek Fund; Academic expansion; Ricardian Tour; Middleham Jewel; | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 12 | 2012 | Discovery of Richard III’s body; Edward IV Roll digitization; Elizabeth, Lady Scales; Torture in Arthurian Tradition | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 12 | 2012 | Lambert Simnel; Christmas pudding; Bylaws amendments | |
| Ricardian Register – June 12 | 2012 | College of Arms; Jacqueline of Hainault; Thomas Stafford | |
| Ricardian Register – March 12 | 2012 | Edward V’s health; Margaret Pole; Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick; Edward IV and poison | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 2011 | 2011 | Annual Reports; Edward of Lancaster; Crosby Place | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 11 | 2011 | Henry Wyatt; Elizabeth of York; Edward IV and diabetes; Cicely Neville | |
| Ricardian Register – June 11 | 2011 | Economics and the Wars of the Roses; Cicely Neville; Edward V’s convocation | |
| Ricardian Register – April 11 | 2011 | Tour Report; Towton Battlefield; Edward V’s convocation | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall/Winter 10 | 2010 | Richard as Duke of Gloucester; Woodvilles and the royal treasury | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring/Summer 10 | 2010 | Carole Rike obit; St. Albans; Medieval gambling | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 90 | 1990 | Dickon Award; Tour of Britain; Edward De Vere; Shakespeare; Cecil; Photos | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 90 | 1990 | AGM Report; Maxwell Anderson Playwright; Board Chronicles | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 90 | 1990 | Anne Neville; Edmund Grey; St. Albans; Edward IV; Paston; | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 09 | 2009 | Richard as Duke of Gloucester; Edward IV Roll University of Pennsylvania | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 09 | 2009 | John Ashdown-Hill; Ricardian portraits in Dorset; Peter Hancock book excerpt | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 09 | 2009 | Woodville siblings; Medieval gloassary | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 08 | 2008 | Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; Fiction library | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer/Fall 08 | 2008 | Lending Library news; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 08 | 2008 | Annette Carson on the Princes in the Tower; Schallek Awards | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 90 | 1990 | Arthur Plantagenet; Historiography; Tey; Apologia; | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 07 | 2007 | Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; Katharine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham; 2007 Society Tour | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 07 | 2007 | Geography of the Tower of London | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 07 | 2007 | Coronation re-enactments Tower of London; Rosemary Horrox | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 07 | 2007 | Time and Clocks in the Middle Ages; AGM announcement; Ravensur Cross | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 06 | 2006 | Richard, Duke of York; Francis Lovell; Central Florida Renaissance Faire | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 2006 | 2006 | Anne Beauchamp; Saints of Northumbria | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring/Summer 06 | 2006 | William Lord Hastings; Kirby Muxloe Castle; Ricardian Tour report | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 05 | 2005 | Edwin Austin Abbey’s Richard & Anne; Morris McGee obit | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 05 | 2005 | Elizabeth Woodville; Tewkesbury; Richard’s mtDNA | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 05 | 2005 | Crosby Hall; Triennial Conference; Plumbing in the 15th century | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 05 | 2005 | Margaret Beaufort; Princes in the Tower in art | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 04 | 2004 | Exeter; Richard III’s visit to Magdalen College; Fotheringhay | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 04 | 2004 | Margaret Beaufort; Gainsborough Old Hall; Astrology; Tewkesbury; Medieval calendar | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 04 | 2004 | Richard III at Madame Tussaud’s; Eleanor Talbot; Elizabeth Talbot | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 04 | 2004 | Community & Identity in 15th Century England; Witchcraft; Ballad of Bosworth Field; “On the Trail of King Richard III” book | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 03 | 2003 | Perkin Warbeck; Elizabeth of York; Combat psychology; Princes in the Tower | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 03 | 2003 | Richard III and the City of Bruges; Hanley Castle, Worcestershire | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 03 | 2003 | Battle of Shrewsbury; Duke of Buckingham; Remembering Geoffrey Richardson | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 03 | 2003 | Battle of Barnet; Battle of Merevale; American & Canadian Branch meeting report | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 02 | 2002 | Battle of Barnet; Bosworth at Atherstone; Ricardian tour diary | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 02 | 2002 | Josephine Tey; Medieval Mystery Novels | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 02 | 2002 | Battle of Bosworth; Wargaming Bosworth | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 89 | 1989 | Medieval medicine; reviews of Horrox’s “Richard III: Study of Service” and Pollard’s “Wars of the Roses” | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 89 | 1989 | Medieval food & cooking; poetry by Glenda Motley; Ricardian reading | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 89 | 1989 | Ricardian Wensleydale; RSC’s performance of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” | |
| Ricardian Register – Autumn 89 | 1989 | Ricardian Reading; Memoriam to Laurence Olivier; report on International Congress of Medieval Studies | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 88 | 1988 | Touring England; report on AGM; map of York | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 88 | 1988 | High school student essays about Richard III | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 88 | 1988 | Use of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s “Richard III”; notes on strawberries, Richard’s motto Tant le Desirere | |
| Ricardian Register – Autumn 88 | 1988 | Jacquetta of Luxembourg; Tower ravens & medieval animal menageries | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 87 | 1987 | La Scala premiere of Flavio Testi’s “Ricardo III” opera; Elizabeth of York; Mary Schaller’s “The Final Trial of Richard III” play | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 87 | 1987 | Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; Report on Oxford University Symposium | |
| Ricardian Register – Autumn 87 | 1987 | Richard III and Ireland; Margaret of York; Richard III in Johnny Quest comic book | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 86 | 1986 | Francis Lovell; Richard Neville, Kingmaker; Historiocity of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 86 | 1986 | Margaret Pole; 15th century fashion; Cecily Neville; Scholarship Committee of American branch | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 86 | 1986 | Grantham’s Royal & Angel Inn; Anthony Woodville; Chapter news | |
| Ricardian Register – Autumn 86 | 1986 | 15th century clothing; Ricardian holdings at British Library; Sandal Castle; Comet Haley in 1456 | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 84 | 1984 | AGM report; Ricardian music; Hastings’ family history; reviews of Sutton/Hammond’s “Coronation of Richard III” and Desmond Seward’s “Richard III Black Legend”; more fiction from Hazel Peter | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 83 | 1983 | Excerpt of Hazel Peter’s novel; review of Sharon Penman’s “Sunne in Splendour”; 15th century handwriting | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 83 | 1983 | Helen Maurer Analyzes Suspects involved w/ Princes in the Tower; Papp’s Central Park Performance of “Richard III”; review of Potter’s “Good King Richard?” | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 82 | 1982 | Report on International Congress Medieval Studies; Jane Austen; Elizabeth Woodville’s whereabouts 1483-87; short story by Rosemary Tillman | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 82 | 1982 | JR Lander’s Approach to Richard III’s Prayer; Medieval Herbs; Charles Ross’s Richard III biography; William Caxton | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 81 | 1981 | Author Patrick Carleton; African Grove Theater’s 1820 performance of Richard III; Quincentenary of Bosworth | |
| Ricardian Register – Spring 81 | 1981 | Richard III’s Wycliffe Bible; Laurence Olivier’s Richard III; Professor Bisceglia on Why Richard III Enthralls College Students | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 01 | 2001 | John Morton;Princes in the Tower;Colin Richmond | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 01 | 2001 | Margery Kempe;Bosworth field;15th century conference report | |
| Ricardian Register – Winter 00 | 2000 | Bosworth Field location;Shakespeare vs history;Edward IV rRoll | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 00 | 2000 | Richard & the Percys;The Cult of Henry VI;Richard’s Parliament robe;Royal bloodlines | |
| Ricardian Register – Summer 00 | 2000 | Henry V & Valmont/Harfleur;Dickon’s Ballad;Days of Grace at Middleham play | |
| Ricardian Register – Oct 78 | 1978 | AGM report;Ricardian comic strip | |
| Ricardian Register – Jan&Jun 78 | 1978 | Leicester statue;Herb lore;English brasses | |
| Ricardian Register – Sep/Dec 77 | 1977 | AGM report;Richard’s York Christmas;Gwentlian Stradling | |
| Ricardian Register – Jul/Aug 77 | 1977 | AGM;Chapter reports;Plantagent genealogy | |
| Ricardian Register – May/Jun 77 | 1977 | Branch UK tour;Stratford Festival;Sweating sickness;Growth of Legends | |
| Ricardian Register – Jan-Feb 70 | 1970 | Princes in the Tower;Central Park joust;Medieval recipes | |
| Ricardian Register – Fall 79 | 1979 | Al Pacino;Shakespeare;Deposition of Kings;AGM | |
| Ricardian Register – Jan-Jun 79 | 1979 | Branch UK tour;Branch finances;Wars of the Roses | |
| Ricardian Register – March&June 69 | 1969 | To Prove A Villain;How to talk about Richard;Library additions | |
| Ricardian Register – Jul/Aug 69 | 1969 | AGM announcement;UK trip report;Library additions | |
| Ricardian Register – Sep/Oct 69 | 1969 | Bosworth memorial;Washington DC chapter;Medieval music | |
| Ricardian Register – Nov/Dec 69 | 1969 | Branch incorporation;Princes in the Tower;Syllabub recipes | |
| Ricardian Register – Oct/Nov 68 | 1968 | AGM report;Elizabeth Woodville;Members’ survey | |
| Ricardian Register – Mar 68 | 1968 | NYC meeting;A.L. Rowse | |
| Ricardian Register – Jun/Jul 68 | 1968 | Report from UK,Western Branch news | |
| Ricardian Register – Jan 68 | 1968 | Secretary’s report;Ricardian reprints | |
| Ricardian Register – Feb 68 | 1968 | Richard handwriting analysis;Book reviews;Betty Schloss | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 68 | 1968 | Member poll;Peerage of England at Richard’s Accession | |
| Ricardian Register – Aug/Sep 68 | 1968 | Rose of Raby;Richard’s letters | |
| Ricardian Register – Apr/May 68 | 1968 | Chapter news;Titulus Regius;Shakespeare vs History | |
| Ricardian Register – Sept 67 | 1967 | Annual Meeting announcement | |
| Ricardian Register – Oct 67 | 1967 | Incorporation vote;Annual Meeting minutes | |
| Ricardian Register – Nov 67 | 1967 | Members’ UK tour;Member list | |
| Ricardian Register – May 67 | 1967 | Lydia Ragosin;To Prove A Villain book;Library additions | |
| Ricardian Register – March 67 | 1967 | Washington DC chapter;Secretary’s report | |
| Ricardian Register – Jun 67 | 1967 | Lydia Ragosin;Corruptible Crown;Daughter of Time | |
| Ricardian Register – Jul/Aug 67 | 1967 | Members Library;Washington meeting;Daughter of Time | |
| Ricardian Register – Feb 67 | 1967 | Rosalie Ehrlich;Membership news;News from UK | |
| Ricardian Register – Dec 67 | 1967 | Washington DC chapter;List of papers;Library additions | |
| Ricardian Register – April 67 | 1967 | Letter from UK Chair;Pittsburgh meeting report;Secretary’s report | |
| Ricardian Register – January 67 | 1967 | Andre Norton;Rex Stout | |
| Ricardian Register – December 66 | 1966 | Members’ trip to UK; Common Interests; Welcome | |
| Ricardian Register – First Issue | 1966 | Reports from the Board; Resolution regarding The Ricardian |