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It's time for the marvellous Christmas hedgehog! Thanks as always to Elaine Traherne who first found her in Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008

✨ Christmas Eve and my #RichardIII decoration, along with his faithful boar, have taken pride of place upon the tree. 🎄 Merry Christmas to all my #Ricardian friends. ❤️

It's Christmas Eve! Here we have the Annunciation to the Shepherds from the Honresfield Hours, made in Paris c. 1470 [MS 5204 f. 65v]. This book was donated to LPL from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. #Christmas #manuscripts

A very Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! (University of St. Andrews ms38938)

Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate! (BNP,IL. 72f 316v)

30 December 1460. The Battle of Wakefield. Richard, Duke of York, his son Edmund, Earl of Rutland & other Yorkists are killed. The Earl of Salisbury is killed the next day. York, Rutland & Salisbury’s heads were displayed on Micklegate Bar in York.

30 December 1460. Battle of Wakefield. Richard,Duke of York is killed after leaving Sandal castle, near Wakefield, to fight a Lancastrian army twice the size of his own. Speculation remains on the reasons why, but a major thorn in the Lancastrian side had been removed.

A special picture to round off the year. Thank you ⁦Thomas Dennis⁩ for being the incredibly talented actor to voice Richard III and thank you Dominic Smee aka King Richard’s “body double” for your unique help in the research. #KingRichardIII #voice #newscience

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Among the medieval English royal documentation held by National Library of Ireland are these letters patents of Richard III witnessed by the King himself at Westminster on 16 February 1485 granting leave of absence from Ireland to Thomas Butler, earl of Ormond.

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