The Wars of the Roses (In Our Time)
1455 · Resource
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 polit
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- Martin Luther (1483)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
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