lABLEd Podcast History Lesson 8 : Richard III

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About the Episode

This week we’re finally releasing our School Trip episode, where we went to the Richard III Visitor’s Centre in Leicester to learn about King Richard III. Famously depicted as grotesque by Shakespeare, Daisy tells Alice and Lucy the truth about Richard and his reign


Sources
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/wars-of-the-roses
https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/warsoftheroses/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Wars-of-the-Roses
https://www.warsoftheroses.com/a-level/history/richard-iiis-downfall-and-the-rise-of-henry-tudor/
https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/richard-iii-and-the-staging-of-disability
http://www.livescience.com/45974-model-twisted-richard-iii-spine.html
https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/997/1181
https://richardiii.net/richard-iii-his-world/the-war-of-the-roses/

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