Leanda de Lisle had a couple of interesting articles out this past week:
* Anne Boleyn’s last secret – Why was the queen executed with a sword, rather than an axe?
* Don’t always blame the mothers – With the kitsch BBC drama The White Queen moving to its conclusion Margaret Beaufort is the villainess viewers love to hate.
And there were a few articles from BBC History Extra website about the Battle of Bosworth:
* Historians identify ‘spot where Richard III was killed in battle’
* How re-enactments could one day help us understand the final moments of Richard III
Also from BBC History Magazine, the September 2013 issue has a cover article on the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden between England and Scotland.
And finally:
* New Shakespearean Prose Found in Old Play – I couldn’t resist posting this since it is from my university!
