Philippa Langley
Auteur de The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III
Œuvres de Philippa Langley
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- Date de naissance
- 1962-06-29
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Professions
- screenwriter
historian - Organisations
- Richard III Society
- Prix et distinctions
- MBE (2015)
- Courte biographie
- Philippa Langley is a Scottish-born screenwriter and historian best known for her contributions to the discovery and exhumation of the lost grave of King Richard III in 2012. She is the secretary of the Scottish branch of the Richard III Society. She raised money for and organized the Looking for Richard project and the excavation of the site of the former Greyfriars monastery in Leicester at which the king was found nearly 530 years after his death. She contributed to a documentary about the project, The King in the Car Park, and is the co-author, with Michael K. Jones, of The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds. In 2015, she was made a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 373
- Popularité
- #64,664
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 23
- ISBN
- 17
- Favoris
- 1
Told in alternate chapters by the two writers, Philippa Langley tells of her search and the legal hoops she had the jump through, before and after the excavation of a Leicester car park results in the finding of the remains of Richard III.
Michael Jones deals with the Historical events leading up to the death of a king, and how the remains came to be where they were eventually and somewhat miraculously found. Always engaging and interesting and at times this reads like fiction.
Rights a number of wrongs of this long misunderstood character but still leaves some unanswered questions which may never be answered.
Completely and utterly recommended.… (plus d'informations)