Wars of the Roses
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English civil wars (1455-85) between the Houses of Lancaster and York, named for their respective emblems of a red and white rose. Conflicts and power struggles on a local and national scale broke... read more |
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David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period. |
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 The ‘biggest, bloodiest and longest battle on English soil’ was fought at Towton in Yorkshire on Palm Sunday 1461. Its brutality was a consequence of deep geographical and cultural divisions which persist to this day, writes George Goodwin. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 5, 2011
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Maurice Keen chronicles a set of 15th century letters - the product of everyday communication between English gentry and officialdom - and suggests how their contents may change the reader's views of the late middle ages. Helen Castor offered her own contemporary historiographical account in 2010. Published in History Today pre-1980, Volume: 9 Issue: 5
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The Wars of the Roses were no clear-cut dynastic conflict, but rather a series of struggles between the magnates of the age and the retinues they maintained by Alan Rogers. Anthony Pollard offered his own separate historiographical analysis in 2010. Published in Volume: 17 Issue: 3, 1967
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Anthony Pollard visits the History Today archive to examine Alan Rogers’ claim that a lack of principle among rival lords resulted in the great conflagration of 15th-century England. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 5
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Robin Evans puts Henry Tudor's victory into Welsh historical perspective. |
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Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England. Published in History Today, Volume: 43 Issue: 9
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Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties Published in History Today, Volume: 42 Issue: 7
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David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period. Published in History Today, Volume: 32 Issue: 11
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