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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:
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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:
no subject
Date: 2010-08-23 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-23 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-23 09:54 pm (UTC)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.)