Anthony Pollard

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.

The Battle of St Albans is now seen to mark the start of the Wars of the Roses. Was it the violent conclusion of one political crisis, rather than the beginning of another?

Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.