Our Event Calendar has had a makeover! We have upgraded our events listings in what we hope is a cleaner, fresher, easier to use way. Check our our new calendar at r3.org/events And now there are multiple options for finding our events. As always, you can head to our Events & GMM page — where you’ll find a link to the Calendar as well as details on upcoming and past
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Schallek Fellowship is Jack McCart of the University of Toronto. His research topic “The Material Cultures of Memory: Death, Patronage, and Self-Presentation in Later-Medieval London,” explores the types of self-presentation that were embedded in Londoners’ activities as patrons, donors, and benefactors. It is interested in questions of how medieval Londoners defined themselves as patrons and sought to shape the
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
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
