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Old 06-02-2011, 01:45 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by SamIam View Post
I started off in high school with Thomas Costain's series of books on the the Plantagenets. I even wrote an honors paper on the question of Richard III and the events on Bosworth Field.
Side note - when I lived in Leicester my local cheap pub was The Last Plantagenet. We called it the Plant or the Last Plant.

In was in honour of Richard III of course.
Getting a third class degree is "getting a Richard".
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