Select NET SEARCH. There are a number of Search Services from which you may choose. Let's select the one called "EXCITE".

When it asks what you're looking for, type "King Richard III", and then click on "Search".

Choices will appear, ten at a time. The word "confidence" suggests how much of an entry relates to the subject requested.

Select the first one: "Richard III and His Nephews".

1. What is the main reason the author believes that Henry Tudor is a more likely perpetrator of the alleged murders of the Princes?

2. Does the author document sources for these conclusions by supplying reference citations?

3. Continue to scroll to the end of the article. See the various entries that begin "Return to. . ."? This article is part of a larger collection of entries. Retrace these and find out who the author of the article is. Look for the author's "Homepage".

4. Find the author's autobiography. Does this suggest that the Richard III article should be considered SERIOUS scholarship?

Now, go back to the choices found for you by EXCITE.

5. The next two choices deal with Shakespeare and his plays. If you wish to do HISTORICAL research on King Richard's life, should you look at these? Why, or why not?

6. The next entry is titled "Richard III Page". Click on that. What is the name of the organization responsible for this entry?

7. Does the text-description of the organization suggest that this group's intention is to defend Richard's name or charge him with royal crimes?

Go back to the EXCITE-choices page. Continue to the bottom of the list. Since Stephen King is unlikely to be a scholarly historical source(!), and we want more than geneologies, let's click on "Next Documents".

8. The next screen covers essentially literature; but six entries down the page, there is a reference to the "Richard III Society". Is that the same organization we just discovered in Question #6?

To find out more about the Richard III Society, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "New Search". The second entry provided by this new search describes the "Richard III Society Homepage".

9. Does the description provided suggest that this organization advocates a single view concerning Richard III's guilt or innocence?

Click on the Richard III Society Homepage. The Homepage identifies the organization as the "American Branch".

10. The original name of the parent society was the Fellowship of the White Boar. Why did they choose "White Boar"?

11. Regarding the film RICHARD III starring Sir Ian McKellen, does the Richard III Society believe that the 1930's setting of the film REINFORCES the negative impression of Richard that is commonly held today?

The Richard III Society Homepage provides a number of links to more specific sites. Use these to answer the following questions:

12. A> Name one source from which Shakespeare probably gleaned the "facts" upon which he based his play about Richard III.
B> Name the title and author of the article that provides this information.
C> Based on the information provided, would you consider this source to be a scholarly one? Why or why not?
D> Look at the "Netsite" at the top of your screen. What is the ADDRESS of the source of this information?

13. Name one academic discussion list available on the Internet that could provide information relevant to the study of Richard III.

14. Anyone researching medieval topics should be familiar with "the Labyrinth". What is "the Labyrinth" and where is it located?

15. A> What popular sports in the fifteenth-century had distinctly MILITARY overtones?
B> Name the title and author of the article that provides this information.
C> Based on the information provided, would you consider this source to be a scholarly one? Why or why not?
D> Look at the "Netsite" at the top of your screen. What is the ADDRESS of the source of this information?

16. A> While bread was a common food in the Middle Ages, how did the bread eaten by one class differ from that eaten by another?
B> Name the title and author of the article that provides this information.
C> Based on the information provided, would you consider this source to be a scholarly one? Why or why not?
D> Look at the "Netsite" at the top of your screen. What is the ADDRESS of the source of this information?

17. Name one book to which one might turn to find information on medieval DRESS.

18. What anonymous poem, covering Richard's final battle, was probably written at a time when the battle was a living memory?

19. A> Some historians suggest that the Battle of Bosworth was fought closer to another town a mile and a half away from the traditional site. What is that town?
B> Name the title and author of the article that provides this information.
C> Based on the information provided, would you consider this source to be a scholarly one? Why or why not?
D> Look at the "Netsite" at the top of your screen. What is the ADDRESS of the source of this information?

20. A> According to legend, there was a note found in the Duke of Norfolk's tent suggesting (accurately) that what nobleman would betray Richard III in the pending Battle of Bosworth?
B> Look at the "Netsite" at the top of your screen. What is the ADDRESS of the source of this information?

21. Name one foreign (non-English) primary-source account of th Battle of Bosworth.

22. Which of the following historians believe that Richard III is guilty of the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and which historians do not believe that he is guilty?
A> Desmond Seward
B> Alison Weir
C> Paul Murray Kendall
D> Jeremy Potter
E> Giles St. Aubyn

23. Give three complete bibliographical references that one might research to gather information on the fate of the Princes whom Richard allegedly killed.

24. If a teacher wishes to design lessons around Richard III, there are specific guides available on the Internet. Name one.

25. Name two popular novels written about Richard III.

26. Name one play -- besides that of Shakespeare -- that employs Richard III as its central character.