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ordering. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine,

Britain's best selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorn. Today we've got the latest in our everything you want to know series,

in which we explore a subject through questions you've sent in on social media and popular

internet search queries. We're speaking to Lauren Johnson about the Wars of the Roses,

the 15th century clashes between the houses of Lancaster and York. Lauren is a historian

writer and heritage interpreter whose books include Shadow King, The Life and Death of Henry VI,

and she's currently working on a biography of Margaret Beaufort, which is due to be published in 2021.

Putting your questions to Lauren was BBC History of the Old Production Editor,

Kev Lottchen. Welcome to the podcast Lauren. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. No worry. So

this episode we're talking about the Wars of the Roses and as usual with our everything

podcast, it's a combination of top Google search queries and questions sent in by you are readers.

But what I'd like to begin is when one of the top Google searches, which might be a predictor,

but what and when would a Wars of the Roses. So like, when if you give us a as bridge for

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