'What was Richard III really like?’ - A new study of the last Plantagenet king

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The possible remains of Richard III discovered by University of Leicester archaeologists may prove to give closure to a 500-year old mystery, but there’s plenty of story left to tell, says David Baldwin, a retired University of Leicester historian. David Baldwin’s new study – the most recent biography of Richard III to be published - interprets contemporary and near-contemporary sources, and suggests that the King’s complex and difficult childhood, in which his father, uncle, an...

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