Comments on: The battle of Bosworth: consequences for winners and losers

By: 'It was the dissimulation of this one man that stirred up that whole plague of evils which followed': William Catesby, Speaker in the Parliament of 1484, and the accession of Richard III - The History of Parliament

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:28:19 +0000

[…] battle of Bosworth on 22 August was a close run thing, but victory was Henry’s. Many of the leading Ricardians […]

By: What might have been: The Sweating Sickness and the Representation of the County of Cornwall in Henry VII’s first Parliament of 1485-6 - The History of Parliament

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:04:29 +0000

[…] the time Henry VII overcame Richard III at the battle of Bosworth and claimed the English throne, changes of dynasty or even ruler followed an established pattern. […]

By: A disputed election in the wake of the battle of Bosworth: the Shropshire election of 1485 - The History of Parliament

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:30:13 +0000

[…] assembled at Shrewsbury castle on 27 October 1485, two months after Henry Tudor’s victory at the battle of Bosworth, to elect two members to the first Parliament of the new reign. On the face of it, a contest […]

By: A last roll of the dice? Richard III’s pardon to John Morton, 16 August 1485 – The History of Parliament

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:30:59 +0000

[…] Rome, and he may still have been there when the events that would lead up to Richard’s death at Bosworth began to unfold. It may, however, be a measure of how far from a foregone conclusion Henry […]

By: What might have been: The Sweating Sickness and the Representation of the County of Cornwall in Henry VII’s first Parliament of 1485-6 – The History of Parliament

Thu, 14 May 2020 00:01:56 +0000

[…] the time Henry VII overcame Richard III at the battle of Bosworth and claimed the English throne, changes of dynasty or even ruler followed an established pattern. […]

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Dillon Lowe — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:50:34 +0000

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By: Review of the Year 2014 | The History of Parliament

Review of the Year 2014 | The History of Parliament — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:29:39 +0000

[…] but they’ve still had time to share some of their research with you. We explored what happened to MPs after the Battle of Bosworth; how you could cause an early 17th century diplomatic incident with a false beard; the life of […]