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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner

The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner

The renowned artist has produced a book of his paintings that are a perfect fit for those interested in the period.

The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, well-known for his illustration of the medieval era and his work for Osprey Publishing. As the title suggests, this latest Osprey volume is a compendium of his...

A Marriage of Fortune, by Anne O’Brien

A Marriage of Fortune, by Anne O’Brien

The Paston family is the subject of Anne O'Brien's Wars of the Roses set novel.
Ella Beales

Anne O’Brien is renowned for uncovering the voices of forgotten women in medieval history. A Marriage of Fortune is no exception, offering insight into female experiences of life in England during the War of the Roses and the early Tudor period. This novel follows the...

The Bosworth Cliff-hanger

The Bosworth Cliff-hanger

War and Politics in August 1485. Shifting loyalties were more important than tactical brilliance.

On 22nd August 1485 two armies assembled near Market Bosworth to contest the throne of England. One was vast and the other tiny, yet the ensuing battle provided one of the greatest upsets in English history. Once the fighting started at Bosworth, the outcome was in...

Crown of Fear, by Derek Birks

Crown of Fear, by Derek Birks

A swift, engaging and historically immersive reading experience.
J.A.Ironside

The Wars of the Roses draw to a close, along with Birks’ multi-generational historical saga in Crown of Fear – the seventh volume of the series. The Elder family’s fortunes have long been caught between the feuding houses of York and Lancaster in a war which has seen...

David Starkey: YouTube Sensation

David Starkey: YouTube Sensation

The acclaimed historian is giving informative talks on his new YouTube channel.

David Starkey is the latest historian to get in on the action of YouTube. Viewers will be familiar with him, of course, from his media presence (on television, radio, and in print); now, he has begun a YouTube series, the scope of which includes English political and...

Fiction Book of the Month: Anne O’Brien on The King’s Sister

Fiction Book of the Month: Anne O’Brien on The King’s Sister

The King's Sister was a Sunday Times bestseller when it was published in 2014. We chatted with Anne about the hero of the book, Elizabeth of Lancaster.

Elizabeth of Lancaster, the subject of The King's Sister, was a fascinating woman, daughter of John of Gaunt and sister to Henry IV. Why did you choose to write about her?  My decision to write about Elizabeth of Lancaster, younger daughter of John of Gaunt and...

Sarah Gristwood

Sarah Gristwood

Sarah Gristwood is the author of several bestselling Tudor histories; most recently Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. In September 2021 she will bring out The Tudors in Love (Oneworld), while also contributing essays to two academic volumes, on ‘The Queen as Artist’ in the sixteenth century, and on Prince Philip.
Sarah Gristwood

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How to Divide a Family: Make a Will

How to Divide a Family: Make a Will

Meet the contentious Paston family.

It has to be said that the Paston family was forced to into a permanent struggle against adversity in their ambition to rise from peasant to gentry.  Faced with the great magnates in Norfolk, the claims on their estates by men more powerful than themselves, it drove...

Derek Birks

Derek Birks

Derek Birks' debut historical novel, Feud, is set during the Wars of the Roses and is the first of a series entitled Rebels & Brothers which follows the fortunes of the fictional Elder family. A second series, The Craft of Kings follows the exploits of the next generation of Elders.
Derek Birks

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The Last Daughter, by Nicola Cornick

The Last Daughter, by Nicola Cornick

The Last Daughter is the latest story from the bestselling historical novelist.
Ella Beales

Nicola Cornick effortlessly blends historical fiction with mystery-writing in her latest dual-time novel, The Last Daughter. An international bestselling author renowned for her time-slip mysteries, Cornick interweaves the 15th century with the present day to create a...