Wars of the Roses
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 |
With the renaissance of Tudor and Stuart political history, scholars have spent a lot of time trying to distinguish early-modern faction politics from modern party politics. The effort is wasted, for while we have acquired parties we have not lost factions. David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period. |
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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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. |
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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With the renaissance of Tudor and Stuart political history, scholars have spent a lot of time trying to distinguish early-modern faction politics from modern party politics. The effort is wasted, for while we have acquired parties we have not lost factions. David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period. Published in History Today, Volume: 32 Issue: 11
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