2024 GMM Report Over 50 members gathered virtually and in person in Santa Fe for the biennial General Membership Meeting. For many, this was their first trip to the Southwest and to New Mexico, but of course, the most anticipated part was re-connecting Ricardians who otherwise live thousands of miles away. Members began arriving at the hotel on Friday night, but the big day was Saturday, November 2nd, which kicked
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
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,
