Footprints of London

Who was Britain’s worst monarch?
13 August 2012 2 Comments on Who was Britain’s worst monarch?
My vote goes to Richard I. For some reason he has gone down in history as a hero – the Lionheart – but he didn’t speak English and in his 10 years as King of England he spent only a few months in the country. Famed as a warrior and Crusader he failed to capture…
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Bodleian takes a byte at the Bard
8 August 2012 Comments Off on Bodleian takes a byte at the Bard
Plans by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library to make Shakespeare’s first folio available on the internet would surely have had the approval of the scholarly Humphrey Lancaster, first Duke of Gloucester. On his controversial death in 1447 Humphrey bequeathed his fine collection of books and manuscripts to Oxford University where they helped form the nucleus of…
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