Old News -- 1998-99

October 1999

• Expanded Ricardian Travel Site. Now includes information on the Year 2000 American Branch Tour of Ricardian Britain and an index to web sites with photos of important Ricardian sites.

August 1999

• Barley Hall -- A Virtual Tour
  Thirty-five images, descriptive text, maps, and an interactive floorplan.
  
• Clarence's Bones
  From a Brazilian correspondent, three images of the vault in Tewkesbury Abbey.
• Battle of Bosworth Section
  Updated with new essays, maps, a "virtual tour" of the Bosworth Battlefield Visitor Centre, and an online "in memoriam" page for you to add your thoughts.
  

July 1999

• AGM '99
  You are cordially invited to second-line with our dancing boar at the Richard III Society, Inc. AGM '99
  October 1-3, 1999. Come this year, or you'll have to wait five years for another AGM exactly on Richard's birthdate!

June 1999

• Puzzled by all those pesky kings in the fifteenth century? Can't figure out how they were related to each other? Need something to explain it to younger students? See member Tina Cooper's The Path of the Crown chart, biographies, and coloring book pages. (Off-site link.)
• The American Branch is sponsoring a web site section for the Ricardian Friends of Barley Hall, a late medieval York townhouse. When it's completed, this will be its homepage. Meanwhile, it includes links to an article about the Hall and some relevant online resources.
• Added a link to a report on the 1999 Richard III Society Conference at Magdalen College, Oxford.
• The Yorkshire Branch now has its own web site, including information on Ricardian Yorkshire.
• Added a link to Isolde Wigram's article, Were the 'Princes in the Tower' Murdered? on the Victoria (Australia) branch site.

May 1999

• Henry Elliot Malden, M.A."The Cely Papers", Selections from the correspondence and memoranda of the Cely family, Merchants of the Staple, A.D. 1475-1488. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by Henry Elliot Malden, M.A.

March 1999

• A member of our parent society has started a discussion list focusing on later medieval Britain but encompassing discussions for the period 1066-1603.This list is open to the public; subscription information can be found at http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/magor/.

February 1999

• Philippe de Commynes, Memoirs
  This memoir, by one of the advisors of the French king Louis XI, offers an interesting perspective on the Wars of the Roses and on Edward IV's 1475 French campaign. Translated with an Introduction by Michael Jones.

• Ricardian Calendar. Put up by freelance Ricardian, this monthly calendar shows significant dates (births, deaths, battles, etc.) for the principal characters in the Ricardian drama.

• Researching the Middle Ages: A Guide foStudents. This guide to doing library research on the middle ages was prepared by Society member and private school librarian Sally Foulkrod with high school students in mind.

January 1999

• Jeremy Potter, "Richard III's Historians: Adverse and Favourable Views". This text, by former chairman Jeremy Potter, was prepared for the Society's exhibition (1991), "To Prove a Villain", which was on display in the foyer of Olivier Theatre in London during Ian McKellen's production of Shakespeare's "Richard III", and later at Warwick castle.

December 1998

• Ricardian Fiction--Articles from the Winter 1997-98 Ricardian Register by Sharon Kay Penman, Sharan Newman, Roxane C. Murph and others.

October 1998

• Our parent society now has its own web site! See it at http://www.richardiii.net
• New at our online library: Titulus Regius, the 1484 Act of Parliament confirming Richard III's accession.
• The Richard III Society, American Branch, is hosting the online version of the May 1998 symposium in honor of Charles T. Wood, Humor in the Comic Mode.
• Built link to a site dedicated to Middleham Castle

July 1998

• July 30--Updated events page for Parent Society with calendar items through 2000.
• July 27--Added page for Worcestershire Branch.

June 1998

• June 15--Added articles listings for the December 1997 and March 1998 issues of The Ricardian.
• June 1--Teachers! Have you taught, or are you planning to teach, a class or unit on Richard III in history, literature, or both? Please be sure to share your experiences, or ask questions, using our online Faculty Forum, accessible through our Learning Resources section. Your experiences can help shape the development of new curricular materials for medieval and renaissance studies at the undergraduate and high school levels in a program sponsored by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages.

May 1998

May 30--Added link to The Richard III Society of Canada

Much of the web site work in 1998 to date has been routine maintenance and has not been chronicled on this page, although we did add a section on our academic conference, which was held May 3-5 at the University of Illinois. Now online:

• May 18--Added complete information on American Branch Annual General Meeting, 1998, to be held October 2-4 at the Cincinnati airport Hilton (located just across the Ohio River in Florence KY). Hosted by the Ohio Chapter, this meeting echos the Middleham theme of the 1989 meeting also hosted by that chapter.
• May 6--Added web-based outline for "Poor Richard? Defending Richard III as a Research Exercise," a presentation by Laura Blanchard at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 7, 1998

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