Petition to get Richard III buried at York minster

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Just that really if you agree would be great if you could sign this

Getorf - try Grantham. Now that's a crappy midlands town. Spawned one Margaret Hilda Roberts.........

Sentamu could flatten Linekar btw. We also have Dame Judi Dench in our corner.

No point to this post but it would be a bit rude not to use the excuse to see it

Alfreton. A crane factory and the Heights of Abraham

what are the woksopp conections?

Dunno - the MP was on R4 saying they had a tomb ready prepared for him in the Priory - as Worksop would have been at the centre of his kingdom (half way twixt York and Leicester).

I think he was just after the publicity.

Ok. They should be an X factor style sing off!

For Leicester we have Englebert Humperdink, Showaddywaddy, Kasabian and Corner Shop.

For York we have Pulp, Joe Cocker, Kaiser Cheifs and the Thompson Twins.

Hi everyone,

We're going to move this thread to petitions soon, its proper, rightful resting place

Feel free to start up a discussion in chat about where Richard III should be buried though.

Grantham has a Richard III connexion: he arranged the Duke of Buckingham's death warrant from the Angel and Royal there.

St Wulfram's is an amazing church.

Please, please please: would you reconsider?

Edit out the petition link, and move to the History Club?

Sorry Kate didn't know there was a petition section

Sorry, Henry VI!

Ooh, I used to live near Alfreton. Had a tramway museum in my village. Derbyshire people are the loveliest.

Listen here, Worksop, you've got Mr Straw's house and are trying to claim Robin Hood so get your mitts off Richard. God, they're just greedy for the heritage.

Eek - if we can't decide where the thread should go, what hope is there for the remains [hgrin]

Signed the petition.

This is fascinating. My history teacher at school was a vocal member of the Richard III Society. I wonder if any of the Royal Family will go to the re-interment? I wonder if the Queen gets to decide what happens.

York, I think, on the basis that most of its fabric was contemporary with him and is not a Victorian bodge-job.

Saltire George II was the last monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey - there is no more room for royal burials. They have been buried at St George's Windsor, except for Victoria and her mad mausoleum at Frogmore.

My guess is that they will skip over the awkward fact of the Reformation by just doing reburial prayers and not a full on funeral. It's not as though the contemporary RCC would have been recognisable to him anyway.

Oooh! New thought! They could use the York Missal that was used in the North before Henry VIII - how super awesome would that be!

I'm all of a dither.

York is not calling to me but I can see why that would be an obvious choice. I like the thought of him being with his wife in Westminster Abbey yet Leicester seems to be the right place. He is associated in most people's minds with dying at Bosworth so if you go to the battlefield it seems logical that his bones nearby. Obviously I am looking at this from a touristy angle. Oh decisions decisions....

Edith - St Wulframs and the Angel are about the only good bits in Grantham. Although it does have an Eleanor cross too.

Off to Google York Missal

Sorry for my 'nothing in Leicester' comment. It was slightly tongue-in-cheek, and the result of growing up just over the border into Nottinghamshire.

I do love (and miss) the market, but it never ceases to amaze me that a town that should have so much history is really pretty blase about it.

No worries Dragon, I think I took it in the spirit it was meant! Notice that the space centre appears twice on my list! My dad always says how ugly the city centre is and that they've lost so much of the historical architecture. I used to shop at the market in my lunch break and get bags of fresh veg for next to nothing. I miss that too.

Good to hear!

I love the centre despite the ugliness - it's so vibrant and bustly. And great food.

But York has so much money from tourism - it'd be lovely to see a bit of an upsurge for Leicester. And, selfishly, I suspect it'd prompt more work on medieval Leicester in the fifteenth century, and I would like someone to do that. There's shedloads on medieval York already.

Sorry for hijack, just wanted to point LRD to this thread where she may be able to help.

Thanks tunip (wow, so jealous of her PhD plans! )

Thanks LRD, I knew you would have good advice for her

Indeed, my skills in travelling to a city-that-shall-remain-nameless are honed. That's my main PhD skill, really, doing an eight-hour round trip in a day and still wanting to discuss the relative merits of York and Leicester.

You're doing it. I'm being tempted towards Leicester
Not in person of course. It would take more than bones to make me bother going there