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. A free PowerPoint PPT presentation (displayed as an HTML5 slide show) on. Richard III was a Yorkist king, but he was not popular with everybody. Both sides believed they had a right to the throne and the crown of England. It was called this because each side of the battle was represented by a rose. The Wars of the Roses, if understood as the dynastic conflict between the rival royal houses of Lancaster and York, were won by Edward IV. Macfarlane argued the political instability is wildly overstated and there were no Wars of the Roses at all. The Wars of the Roses The White Rose of York The Red Rose of Lancaster Edward s. The War of Roses began in the middle of the 1400s. 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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