"To Prove a Villain: The Real Richard III" -- online exhibition

I am pleased to make the official announcement that the online
version of the Society's 1991 Exhibition, "To Prove a Villain: The
Real Richard III" is now online at the American Branch website,

http://www.r3.org/

The original exhibition filled nine wall panels and eleven display
cases in the foyer of the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre
during the run of the Ian McKellen/Richard Eyre production of
Shakespeare's _Richard III_. Following the display there, it had a
long run at Warwick Castle (minus the memorabilia), and now lives on,
in pieces, at other locations in England.

The exhibition owes much to many people -- to Geoffrey Wheeler goes
the credit for organization and coordination, not to mention
producing the images. A number of scholars, within the Society and
without, contributed to the text: Peter Hammond, Josephine Nicholls;
Jeremy Potter; John Saunders; Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs;
Pamela Tudor-Craig; and William White. Many members loaned objects
for the three cases of memorabilia.

Geoff Wheeler and I collaborated on a "printed" version of this
exhibition -- word-processed and photocopied, actually -- back in
1993. It ran to more than 60 pages altogether, and was a
proofreader's nightmare. A decade later, with the original word-
processing disks useless because I hadn't migrated to a new platform,
I keyboarded the thing again. I expect this will be the last time!

American Branch member Tamara Mazzei is responsible for the sparking
design of the exhibition, for the graphic on the homepage and heading
all pages; and for cleaning up my raw scans. I have put in some links
to supporting resources on the American Branch site. I have linked
generally to the Society's site in several places as well, and will
consult with Neil Trump on the most effective way to get users to
specific locations (such as Fotheringhay church), given the site's
frames-based architecture.

Something our American Branch site has lacked for some time is an
introduction to Ricardian issues that can serve as a unifying focus
for many of our more specialized web resources such as online texts,
photos of battle sites, etc. I'm delighted that we were able to adopt
this project as our own -- it lends itself beautifully to such a use.

Feel free to forward this message to other listservs or message
boards you feel might find this of interest. I have posted it on the
American Branch's member listserv, richard3.