Richard III is one of history's greatest villains. He was a deformed usurper who stole the throne and paid the ultimate price for it. But who was the man behind the stories? It turns out, Richard III ...

It is one of history's most intriguing "murders" — the mysterious disappearance over five centuries ago of two young princes from the Tower of London. Nearly 200 years after they disappeared, two ...

University of Huddersfield provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The release of Stephen Frears’ film The Lost King once more focuses attention on one of the most controversial figures ...

NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) --Philippa Langley, the amateur historian who discovered British King Richard III's remains under a Leicester parking lot in 2012, says the Steve Coogan-Sally Hawkins drama, The ...

A permanent exhibition showing a state-of-the-art avatar of King Richard III is set to open in Leicester. The display, which will feature a digital image of the medieval king speaking in a Yorkshire ...

NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) --The Lost King star, co-writer and producer Steve Coogan says he wanted his new drama to give Philippa Langley -- the amateur historian who discovered Richard III's remains ...

A new movie about the discovery of a British monarch’s remains has been accused of a “reckless” airbrushing of history. But archaeologists and scientists involved in the discovery, fear that the film ...

David Sterling Brown receives funding from the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s ...

Fact, fiction and feeling collide and combine in Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King,” written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, an adaptation of the book “The Lost King: The Search for Richard III.” This ...

Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London—can finally be solved. Their disappearance led to centuries of mystery and speculation. Were the ...

Watch as King Richard III has been given a Yorkshire accent using state-of-the-art technology. The digital avatar of the medieval king went on display in front of history buffs at York Theatre Royal ...