Putting some of the Richard III projects to one side for a moment, I thought I would write about the events of the next two weeks that I have been working on with colleagues. Firstly, Universities Week 2014 is 9-15 June. Universities Week is run by Universities UK to highlight the research that takes place […]
Outreach and Audiences: the discovery of Richard III blog
Time to Evaluate
April began with an amazing run of Shakespeare’s Richard III at Leicester Cathedral. The venue was perfect! Just the right amount of echo and atmosphere to create the right amount of tension. The point where Buckingham comes charging through the Cathedral doors was particularly effective. Well done LUTheatre! Apart from a visit from the Department […]
March madness
The end of February and beginning of March were hectic! We had the first Richard III Conference at College Court, which was a resounding success. Delegates came from all over the world to hear the stories behind the discovery and meet the people involved. The weekend included a trip to Bosworth Battlefield with a guided […]
An Array of Audiences
This week has been a little hectic, but has been a demonstration of some of the audiences that we are engaging with on the Richard III Project. Monday began with a visit to Humberstone Primary School, where two Year 5 classes, showed me their work on Richard III. It was wonderful to see how imaginative […]
One Year On
It has been quite a year for the team at the University, I thought it would be a nice idea to see how many of the Richard III team and people who have been involved in the project in one place for a small celebration. I wasn’t working on the project on 4th February 2013, […]
2013, a review
Seeing as this is my last working day of 2013 I thought I would do a quick recap of 2013 and a bit of a preview of the events and outreach of 2014. Since the announcement of the identity of the Greyfriar’s Skeleton as Richard III on 4th February 2013 and my appointment in April […]
“Now is the Winter…”
As it is getting chillier out there I thought I would post a reminder about the School of English and their “Now is the Winter…” competition. The idea is that you sign up and then submit a new interpretation of the opening soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard III. The competition is open to all Leicestershire secondary […]
November – a busy month
I had originally planned to try and blog once a week, but then the activities during November got in the way a little. The Scouts heritage badge session went well. I was a little unprepared for the noise and discussion that the activities created, but it didn’t take me long to realise that the discussion […]
A relatively quiet week
This week has been relatively quiet in relation to other weeks. This has mainly been down to a lack of meetings, that are useful, but often create more work for me and take up time to do that work. So I have been able to get on with some of the projects that need some […]
Brownies, Guides and Scouts Badges
Some of the requests I get are not conventional, but end up with very interesting outcomes. Recently a Scout group leader got in touch with me about putting together a package for the Scouts heritage badge. I had a look at the outline for the badge and realised what an excellent opportunity this was. So […]
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