In the 1950s, three events converged to prompt a surge of renewed interest in Richard III. Two books were published – Josephine Tey’s novel The Daughter of Time, and Paul Murray Kendall’s sympathetic biography of Richard, together with the release of Laurence Olivier’s film of Shakespeare’s Richard III. In response, the Fellowship of the White Boar opened up to a wider membership and in 1959 changed its name to The Richard III Society.