![]() ![]() ![]() The ‘Second War’ opens with the Battle of Towton and continues with a reflection on two important battles – the Battle of Barnett and the Battle of Tewkesbury. You’ll also discover the role Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of Henry VI, played in the War of the Roses. We’ll examine the two branches of the House of Plantagenet – the Yorks and the Lancasters, along with the key components and people that led them to war.įrom there, the War of the Roses Diploma Course takes you through the war chronologically, beginning with the Battle of St. Opposing this position are the many Tudor historians who like to claim that the Wars of the Roses represent the final breakdown of the feudal system and lead directly to the Tudor Era and the birth of the modern age.With Dr Helen Castor, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Professor Colin Richmond, Emeritus Professor of History, Keele University Dr Steven Gunn is a Tudor historian and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Merton College, Oxford.The course begins with a look at the 100 Years War and how it caused the development of the War of the Roses. Macfarlane argued the political instability is wildly overstated and there were no Wars of the Roses at all. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Wars of the Roses which have been the scene for many a historical skirmish over the ages: The period in the fifteenth century when the House of Lancaster and the House of York were continually at odds is described by Shakespeare, in the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III as a time of enormous moral, military and political turmoil - the quintessential civil war but twentieth century historians like K.B. ![]()
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