In 2012, the bones of King Richard III were excavated from a parking lot in the city of Leicester, England. For years, historians and academics had searched for his final resting place following his ...

Richard III is one of history's greatest villains. He was a deformed usurper who stole the throne and paid the ultimate price for it. But who was the man behind the stories? It turns out, Richard III ...

It is one of history's most intriguing "murders" — the mysterious disappearance over five centuries ago of two young princes from the Tower of London. Nearly 200 years after they disappeared, two ...

NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) --Philippa Langley, the amateur historian who discovered British King Richard III's remains under a Leicester parking lot in 2012, says the Steve Coogan-Sally Hawkins drama, The ...

Movie review : “The Lost King,” directed by Stephen Frears, starring Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd. Playing in theaters. Like many movies inspired by real events, Stephen Frears ’ “The Lost ...

University of Huddersfield provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The release of Stephen Frears’ film The Lost King once more focuses attention on one of the most controversial figures ...

David Sterling Brown receives funding from the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s ...

Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like if he did ...

A new movie about the discovery of a British monarch’s remains has been accused of a “reckless” airbrushing of history. But archaeologists and scientists involved in the discovery, fear that the film ...

Watch as King Richard III has been given a Yorkshire accent using state-of-the-art technology. The digital avatar of the medieval king went on display in front of history buffs at York Theatre Royal ...