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...
Wars of the Roses
A Marriage of Fortune, by Anne O’Brien
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
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
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 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
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
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How to Divide a Family: Make a Will
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
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The Last Daughter, by Nicola Cornick
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...










