Yesterday

[selenak]

As kalypso pointed out, yesterday, August 22nd, was the day of the battle of Bosworth, where Richard III. died. In commemoration, here's a link to the Richard III Society, and some excerpts of the 1984 trial of Richard, where various historians were cross examined and a jury reached a verdict.



The opening of the trial:

You can follow the entire trial from there. If you don't have the time, have some more excerpts:

Defense cross examination:

Verdict:

Comments

[kalypso]

Gosh, yes, now I think about it that was the first time I ever saw David Starkey!

[selenak]

Before he started complaining about the overemphasizing of women in history. :)

[kalypso]

I remember one reviewer complaining that they made Richard sound rather dull, and he thought it would have been much more fun if he'd been like David Starkey.

Oddly enough, Starkey did a series on the wives of Henry VIII, and I seem to remember he was reasonably sympathetic to Anne. (He wasn't actually in love with her, which Simon Schama clearly was in the relevant episode of A History of Britain, but that's fair enough since he's gay.)