Richard’s Boar in Lego

Following the success of the Easter Lego event in 2018, when the most famous portrait of King Richard III, the National Portrait Gallery one, was recreated using Lego bricks, Fairy Bricks were back in Leicester this Easter to build another Richard III-themed mosaic at the Richard III Visitor Centre. This year members of the public…

An Easter exhibition

From Saturday to Easter Monday, the Richard III Visitor Centre will have a special interactive exhibition for children, including the chance to build the King from Lego bricks or to illustrate him in other ways.  

A High Court privacy battle, but the Tate Modern’s extension still wins top award….

“The controversial Tate Modern extension has been named one of the buildings of the year by the Royal Institute of British Architects, despite the design provoking a High Court privacy battle.” Hm, Richard’s centre in Leicester is another winner of this RIBA award—I wonder if his privacy could have been contested in the High court?…

Coming up in July …

… literally where it all began nearly five years ago, children can just turn up at the Visitor Centre and learn how archaeology happens.

Now a world venue

Richard’s reburial week clearly isn’t the end of the story: http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/Richard-III-s-tomb-Smithsonian-Institution-s-25/story-27824765-detail/story.html

Richard carved in sand….

http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2015-archive-1/september/richard-iii-gave-battle-in-sand Watch time-lapse footage of Richard III sand sculpture being modelled in Leicester’ A time-lapse video showing the creation of a sand sculpture depicting the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 has been captured by the University of Leicester. 80 tonnes of sand were transformed into four giant sculptures by award-winning artists who were asked to…

Some refreshing omissions . . . .

This is another review of the Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester, and is refreshing because the only criticism is about the coffee! (About which I cannot comment.)  Nor are there are any of the usual orchestrated Tudor lies about Richard. Not one of the wearisome old chestnuts makes an appearance, even the ‘princes’ in the Tower.…