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The Wars of the Roses Part Four: The Fall of the Kingmaker

The Wars of the Roses Part Four: The Fall of the Kingmaker

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Welcome to episode 4 of this 6 part special on the Wars of the Roses. Today’s episode sees Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, make plans which soon fall apart.


Joining me are two historians, Derek Birks, the author of the Guide to the Wars of the Roses, and David Pilling, author of Kingbreaker.


You’ll get two episodes per week, and so hopefully will emerge from August with a superior knowledge of a conflict that was an early civil war, and which formed England for the next few hundred years. All the great characters are here, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VI, Queen Margaret, Warwick the Kingmaker, Edward IV, Richard III and finally Henry Tudor.


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A Guide to the Wars of the Roses, by Derek Birks


Kingbreaker: Rebel and Traitor, by David Pilling


Kingmaker Board Game


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The Wars of the Roses Part Four: The Fall of the Kingmaker

The Wars of the Roses Part Four: The Fall of the Kingmaker

Oliver Webb-Carter