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History

• Who was Richard III?

• Richard’s visits to Leicester

• Medieval Leicester

• Churches and friaries

• Leicester Castle

• Walls and gates

• The Newarke and the Church of the Annunciation

• Previously at this address

• History of the Blue Boar

• Plans of the Blue Boar

• Explore the Blue Boar

• Model of the Blue Boar

• Shakespeare, More and more

• Myths and legends

Archaeology

• Background to the project

• Greyfriars in old maps and plans

• Where we dug . . . and what we found there

• Saturday 25 August 2012

• Saturday 26 August 2012

• Monday 27 to Friday 31 August 2012

• Saturday 1 September 2012

• Sunday 2 to Tuesday 4 September 2012

• Wednesday 5 September 2012

• Wednesday 5 September 2012 (continued)

• Thursday 6 to Friday 7 September 2012

• Saturday 8 to Friday 14 September 2012

• The problems of urban archaeology

• New understanding of old Leicester

• Artistic impressions of the church

Science

• Extraction and analysis of DNA

• Results of the DNA analysis

• Lines of descent

• Psychology of a sovereign

• Face and voice

• Osteology – reading the bones

• Injuries to the skull 1 - 2

• Injuries to the skull 3 - 6

• Injuries to the skull 7 - 8

• Injuries to the body 9 - 10

• Spine

• What the bones can and can’t tell us

• Forensic analysis using micro-CT

• Carbon dating

Meet the team

• Richard Buckley – Project Manager

• Mathew Morris – Fieldwork Director

• Dr Jo Appleby – osteological analysis

• Dr Turi King – genetic analysis

• Professor Lin Foxhall – historical research

• Professor Kevin Schürer – genealogical research

• Thank you to...

• Acknowledgements

Multimedia and links

• Audio clips

• News archive

• Richard III conquers the world

• Image gallery

The Grey Friars Dig Part 2

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