Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine,

Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellie Korthorn.

On today's episode, we have another in our recorded lecture series from our 2019 history weekend events. This time the historian Thomas Penn

will be speaking about his book The Brothers York which follows the fate of

three siblings that shaped the course of the Wars of the Roses.

Edward the 4th, Richard the 3rd and George Duke of Clarence. Thank you all. Thank you very much. Lovely to see you all here.

And I'm

to be here.

Thank you very much.

Lovely to see you all here.

Lovely to be here in Winchester this very rainy morning.

So, in the 15th century,

England was ripped apart by civil war, waves of violence which intermittently

swept the country over a 30-year period.

We have a name for these wars, course the wars of the roses a struggle between two

royal houses the house of Lancaster the red rows against the house of York, the White Rose, for the English Crown.

At the Battle of Botsworth, on the 22nd of August, 1485, it was a Lancastrian, Henry Tudor, who defeated a Yorkist, Richard the third, and became

first king of the House of Tudor.

Now the Tudor emblem here is also a rose, the rose both red as you can see and white,

a symbol of the Tudor ability to unite these two waring houses,

bring an end to civil war and take England

into a glorious new united future.

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