Contents
- My Sovereign King, Queen and Princely Peers: Biographies of
characters in Shakespeare's Richard III. Illustrated with portraits,
seals, signatures, etc.
- Divided York and Lancaster: Background to the Wars of the Roses;
synopsis of events, popular misconceptions. Text by Peter Hammond.
- My Life Upon a Cast: Chronology of the life and reign of Richard
III (four panels), illustrated with places, personalities, battlefields,
etc. Text by Peter Hammond.
- These Supposed Crimes: Four major accusations (the murders of
Edward of Lancaster, Henry VI, Clarence and Queene Anne) discussed
and illustrated. Text by Peter Hammond.
- Poor Painted Queen: Royal portraits: Henry VI, Edward IV, Queen
Elizabeth, etc. With commentary by Pamela Tudor-Craig, PhD., FSA.
- I Looked on Richard's Face: Porrtraits of Richard III. With
commentary by Pamela Tudor-Craig.
- A Book of Prayer...True Ornament to Know a Holy Man: Richard
III's books. With commentary by Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs.
- Give Me Some Ink and Paper...These Letters Will Resolve My Mind:
Richard III's letters, from his earliest in 1469 to that of the
Buckingham rebellion in 1483 with its long postscript in his own
hand.
- Every Tale Condemns Me For a Villain; The Truth Shall Live From
Age to Age: Richard's detractors: Croyland Chronicle, Mancini,
Polydore Vergil, Thomas More, Shakespeare, etc. Richard's defenders:
Buck, Walpole, Halsted, Tey, other twentieth-century defenders.
Illustrated with pages from their works. Text by Jeremy Potter.
- The Royal Tree: Family tree illustrated with portraits from
effigies and manuscripts, heraldic badges of Lancaster and York.
"Pro" and "anti" quotes on Richard's appearance
and character.
- Richard Yet Lives; Welcome Sweet Prince: The Richard III Society.
History, memorials, achievements. Text by John Saunders. Medieval
London, with maps showing principal Ricardian sites, side panels
featuring Baynard's Castle and Crosby Hall.
- This Famous Isle: Map of Ricardian Britain with illustrations
of famous sites.
- The Sons of Edward: The Princes in the Tower. With commentary
by John Saunders...
- The Dead Bones That Lay Scattered By: The bones found in the
Tower. With commentary by W. J. White.
- The Most Deadly Boar: Richard's boar badge. Contemporary examples
in glass and stone, manuscripts, seals, etc. With commentary on
its origin and significance by Geoffrey Wheeler.
- Near to the Town of Leicester: Medieval Leicester, modern memorials.
Blue Boar Inn, Richard's Bed, Bow Bridge, other traditional connections;
battlefield relics.
- Even Here, on Bosworth Field: Bosworth Field. Brief account
of the battle and map. Principal features of the area today. Richard
III at Bosworth paintings, etc. Memorials to those who fought
in the battle, Yorkist and Tudor.
- Looking on His Images: Memorabilia; three-dimensional objects.
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