Richard Buckley, “The King Under the Car Park: The Search for Richard III”
April 12, 2016 at the Boston Athenæum.
For centuries, the final resting place of Richard III, England’s last Plantagenet king, remained a mystery. In 2012, a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester set out to search for the burial site of the king, who died in 1485 in the Battle o…
Dan Jones, “Magna Carta”
October 22, 2015 at the Boston Athenæum.
The United States’ Founding Fathers were deeply influenced by the Magna Carta in the formation of our country. The Athenæum’s early history reflects a deep respect of, and even involvement from, many of the Founding Fathers as evidence by the purchase and c…
Richard III reburial special
With just a few days to go until the reburial of the last Plantagenet king in Leicester Cathedral, we speak to two experts with close connections to the event. Phil Stone, chairman of the Richard III Society, considers the ways that the recent discoveries have changed our view of the king. Meanwhil…
Legacy
In this Diamond Jubilee year, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz has been selecting some of the most revealing objects from the Royal Collection to see what they tell us about the monarchs who acquired them. It is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world, and also one o…
Blanche d’Alpuget – Powerful Plantagenets
Blanche d’Alpuget became fascinated with the 12th century as a teenager, but it took another 50 years before she was inspired to write a five-book series about the first Plantagenet King of England, King Henry II and his superstar wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the richest woman in Europe at that time…
2. Empress Matilda
History may have forgotten Empress Matilda, but we haven’t. When The White Ship disaster deprived Henry I of his only legitimate male heir, he names his daughter Matilda as his successor. But the throne is stolen from her by her cousin, Stephen of Blois. England is subsequently thrust into a civil …
The Devils Brood; the First Plantagenet King
Enter Henry II, the son of the Empress. Henry would command one of the largest empires in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. His reforms would set England on the path to modernity and restore the English monarchy from the brink of collapse. But his greatest challenge would overwhelm him; hi…
Norman and Plantagenet Pioneers
Listen to an account of two women who led remarkable lives despite the fact that both were married to very difficult men namely William the Conqueror and England’s first Plantagenet king, Henry II…
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Sceptred Isle, A New History of the Fourteenth Century, Part 2, with Helen Carr
Helen Carr joins me again today to discuss the rest of her most recent book, Sceptred Isle. Today we discuss the reigns of Kings Edward III and Richard II, from Edward’s early reign in which he was bullied by his mothers domineering lover to becoming viewed as the greatest Plantagenet king, through…
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