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It seems there has never been a better time to head outside and start digging up your local car park. Since the bones of Richard III were exhumed in Leicester last summer, archaeology has become more exciting than even two decades of Channel 4's Time Team could have dreamed.
Now that the BBC is about to air the TV series adaptation of Philippa Gregory's The White Queen, it is well worth revisiting the merits of the book itself.
Plantagenet tells of a dynasty of monarchs that has shaped one of the longest, ripest and bloodiest periods in English history. The fact and fiction, the rumour and reality that have surrounded this mighty line of rulers have generated a mythos shrouded in drama, chivalry, ambition, mistrust and romance.
Descendants of King Richard III have added their voices to the mini War of the Roses being fought over his final resting place, in a last ditch attemp...
There will be no grand tomb marking the final resting place of King Richard III, cathedral chiefs say. The design brief for Richard's tomb has been...
When the bones of the king were discovered in a car park in Leicester, the East Midlands wasted no time in smartening itself up ready for tourists to pour in. And pour in they certainly did: a temporary exhibition outside the Guildhall attracted over 4,000 visitors in its first weekend.
Now that it's positive that the bones found buried beneath a car park are those of King Richard III, Leicester is staging an exhibition about the find...
Once again, it wasn't a good week to be a horse. But it was a good week to be on Twitter if you had a new horse joke. Yes, this week's round-up of ...
Enter Richard III, who in this production closely resembles David Cameron.
Monday saw the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49'ers in the Super Bowl final, but more importantly Beyonce performed at the half-time show an...
It was a battle fought with online petitions rather than swords and longbows. The tussle for the remains of Richard III has pitted Leicester agains...
Bob Diamond has been publically mauled again this week. I'm not for one moment suggesting that anyone should feel sorry for him - the £100m in salary...
Two new exhibitions bringing to life the story of King Richard III will open tomorrow following the monarch's remains being discovered under a council...
The news that ancient remains, discovered under a Leicester car park, have been positively identified as those of King Richard III of England has led,...
King Richard III would have sounded like a Brummie, according to a language expert. Dr Philip Shaw, from the University of Leicester's School of En...
The face of King Richard III has been unveiled to the world after a battle-scarred skeleton found under a Leicester car park was confirmed as that of ...
A backbone buried in a car park has been confirmed as that of the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg. The spine has been missing since May 2010, i...
Flushed with royal success after discovering the remains of King Richard III, archaeologists are to embark on their next 'great' mission: unearthing t...
So we have received the news that Richard III fans have been waiting for. The skeletal remains found last year in Greyfriars car park in my Leicester South constituency are indeed those of Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England.
Richard III is dominating the news after tests on a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester have confirmed the bones as being his remains. And...
Today's confirmation that remains found beneath a car park in Leicester are those of the last Plantagenet king of England will not strip the mystery f...
Tests on a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester have confirmed that the remains belong to Richard III, archaeologists have said. The first ...
Richard III, brutally disturbed from peaceful rest under a Leicester car park, has emerged to a new world, where skewering now takes place on social n...
Tests on a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester have confirmed that the remains belong to Richard III, archaeologists have said. Scientists...
Archaeologists involved in the hunt for the remains of Richard III have released the first image of a battle-scarred skull which could be that of the ...
