Gaby Neher blogs on Richard III

Gabriele Neher, Assistant Professor of History of Art at University of Nottingham, has written a blogpost for The Conversation, reflecting on the upcoming re-burial of Richard III in Leicester.

She says: "Richard III has been appropriated by the city where, through an accident of history, he met his death on the battlefield. Richard had certainly never been associated with Leicester in life, but has become associated with it through death. This has created a relationship of obligation for the city, one it has responded to with 'dignity and honour'..." Read the full story here.

The bones of the controversial King, who died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, were discovered under a car park in 2012 and will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015.