Oh and didnt Shakespeare write a play about him?
Nowadays the public are becoming more aware that King Richard III lived and died during a fascinating and colourful period of English history and that this epoch provides a controversial backdrop for murder, mystery, and suspense. Moreover, the public now questions whether the dramatic caricature devised by Shakespeare is depicting a real man or somebody who is the target for one of the earliest character assassinations in English history. The Society was originally founded in 1924 by a generation who had already begun to ask these questions and they laid the foundation for a Society that welcomes people who feel that traditional history, based on the Tudor perceptions of King Richard, needs to re-examined and re-assessed.
