Richard III has long stood accused of murdering his nephews in 1483, but some experts doubt it. A new piece of evidence has ...

The legbone of King Richard III, who was killed in battle in 1485, was found by archaeologists in Leicester on 25 August 2012. The city's Richard III Visitor Centre is marking the occasion with a ...

The team was also at the heart of Leicester's greatest mystery - the identification of the remains of Richard III. By comparing DNA from the skeletal remains to living descendants of Richard’s ...

"The team as a whole work collaboratively with all of Leicester's heritage institutions and as the visible face of ‘Visit ...

You won’t believe it, but Benedict Cumberbatch’s family goes way back, with royal ties to Richard III and a rich history full ...

The petition, with more than 1,300 signatures, has been handed to Leicester Cathedral A petition against Shakespeare's Richard III being performed at the cathedral where the monarch is buried has ...

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was crowned in the Abbey as Richard III on Sunday 6th July 1483 ... Bosworth on 22nd August 1485 and his body was buried at Grey Friars Abbey in Leicester. But his bones ...

The story behind Philippa Langley's quest to find the lost medieval English king, Richard III. Richard died at the ... Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leicester. Original image by University ...

"I was literally dressed as Shakespeare’s version of Richard III when I received the email from Leicester University saying that I was a not-altogether-ridiculously-distant descendent of Richard ...