The Battle of Bosworth Field
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This episode discusses the Battle of Bosworth Field, a pivotal conflict in the Wars of the Roses.
The Battle of Bosworth Field was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long conflict between the House of York and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne. Written and narrated by Hannah Keller. Video production by Hannah Keller, Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Laura Seeger. A transcript is available at https://origins.osu.edu/read/battle-bosworth-field. Learn More: Carpenter, Christine. The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437-1509. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Foard, Glenn and Anne Curry. Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered. Oxbow Books, 2013. Hicks, Michael. The Wars of the Roses. Yale University Press, 2010. Jones, Dan. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors. Penguin Books, 2015. Jones, Michael. Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle. Tempus, 2002. Langley, Philippa. The Princes in the Tower: How History’s Greatest Cold Case Was Solved. Pegasus Books, 2023. Pollard, A.J. The Wars of the Roses. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The…
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