An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

139. The Princes in the Tower Part 2

January 18, 2022

Description

Who killed the Princes in the Tower? The inspiration behind Shakespeare's Richard III, their murder remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history. In the second of two episodes, all...
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Books Referenced

The Daughter of Time

Author: Josephine Tay

Context:

Explicitly mentioned as a novel published in 1951, described as 'one of the greatest whodunits ever written' that kick-started the Ricardian romance with Richard III. The book features detective Alan Grant solving the mystery of the princes in the tower while laid up in hospital.

The Brothers York

Author: Tom Penn

Context:

Mentioned when discussing the Wake family in Northamptonshire during the 1483 coup. Tom Holland describes it as 'a wonderful book' that talks about the Wake family's involvement in events of that period.

Richard the Third

Author: Paul Murray Kendall

Context:

Referenced as 'a great biography of Richard III, probably the definitive one for a lot of Ricardians, by an American academic.' The speaker mentions loving it when he was about 12, and notes it has an appendix arguing that Buckingham killed the princes.