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
Young scholars present their discoveries at Free Library. On December 12, the team at the University of Pennsylvania gave a presentation about the work they’ve completed so far on the “Edward IV Roll” and delivered a sneak preview of how their transcription and translation will fit into the digital mapping of the manuscript. The presentation was attended by members of the Special Collections staff at the Free Library of Philadelphia,
Scholars Make Progress, Find Surprises, on Edward IV Roll Project. Update on the Edward IV Roll Project: Earlier this year, the American Branch funded four scholars at the University of Pennsylvania to begin transcribing and translating Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis MS E201 – a long, multi-membrane propaganda scroll combining a chronicle of the history of the world from Creation with a genealogy of Edward IV, effectively marrying Biblical authority
American Branch Reaches Its Highest Membership Ever! We are happy to announce that membership in our society has exceeded previous levels, with almost 450 members as of August, 2023. “No doubt, this was because of the publicity generated by The Lost King movie and its positive reception,” says American Branch chairperson Susan Troxell, “but it’s also because of a new sense of camaraderie in the Ricardian community where bonds have
