http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/ The Sceptred Isle Wed, 01 May 2013 19:58:25 GMT S Kevin Wojtaszek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4911 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4911 It occurs to me that we hardly ever discuss Henry III. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22357869 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:47:01 GMT S Kevin Wojtaszek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4910 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4910 http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-european-medieval-cookbook-found-130417.htm Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:32:02 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4909 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4909 That's another good point - Alfred through necessity and Richard through the (medieval canon) law. Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:42:00 GMT marion davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4908 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4908 Like Richard III, Alfred the Great set his minor-aged nephews aside.  He wasn't vilified, as Richard III was.   Marion Like Richard III, Alfred the Great set Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:15:16 GMT Bill Ramsay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4907 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4907 King Alfred The Great did what he had to do, to beat the Vikings. And his strategy, if I remember both a recent History Channel show about him, and from Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:59:09 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4906 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4906 That's right. Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:39:22 GMT Bill Ramsay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4905 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4905 He enabled a British people to live, didn't he? King of Wessex died in 899 AD? He beat back the Vikings, wasn't it?   Bill ... From: stephenmlark Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:00:15 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4904 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4904 As the latest exhumed monarch, awaiting identification, shall we discuss his life, times and posthumous existence? Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:11:25 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4902 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4902 The authorities (the Abbey is a Royal peculiar) seem not to be too keen on re-opening the urn. Personally, I think the remains of the former Edward V are about Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:18:12 GMT Bill Ramsay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4901 Given the advances in scientific knowledge, that is a very good and present hope. Perhaps the remains of young folks who probably died far too you, were far Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:22:42 GMT Caroline Jett-Donovan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4900 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4900 Interesting now to do a DNA test against the two unidentified boy's skeletons found in the Tower. Maybe it will clear up that mystery once and for all. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:34:11 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4899 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4899 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2299467/Have-Alfred-Great-Archaeologists-exhume-unmarked-grave.html Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:30:23 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4898 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4898 The Church of Scotland? That's him. Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:45:52 GMT Bill Ramsay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4897 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4897 Holy Katzenjammers!!!! John Knox, of all people???????   Isn't / wasn't he the founder of Scotland's national Protestant / Calvinist church??? Like in, the Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:50:21 GMT stephenmlark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4896 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sceptredisle/message/4896 Oh yes. John Knox is also under an Edinburgh car park space - St. Giles' of course.