![]() ![]() ![]() I read a ton of books (nonfiction ones) about Richard III when I was in middle school because I’d just read Daughter of Time (of course), but it’s been ages since I took an active interest. It was also nice to reacquaint myself with this period in British history. But set against those tics are ALL THE SCHEMES, y’all seriously, I can’t overstate how much I love schemes. It has some tics, chief amongst them being the addition of helping verbs where the primary verbs did not truly require extra assistance, and the exclusion of grammatically warranted conjunctions. ![]() The Sunne in Splendour ( Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) is about my man Richard III. On the other hand, I love political scheming and the Wars of the Roses are all schemes all the time. On one hand, I can imagine it would be a great relief to get out of the thicket of battles and mess and dethronings and usurpations and arguing that went on all through the fifteenth century. Can someone British please tell me how British schoolchildren feel about learning the Wars of the Roses? Because I can see it two ways. And now, the Plantagenets and the Wars of the Roses. ![]()
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