St Albans 1455 Boardman Andrew
The definitive book on this important battle of the Wars of the RosesFor many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a 'short scuffle in the street'. A.W. Boardman, the author of Towton…
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The definitive book on this important battle of the Wars of the RosesFor many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a 'short scuffle in the street'. A.W. Boardman, the author of Towton 1461: The Anatomy of a Battle, proves this was not the case. Indeed, the battle was unique and a significant event in England's medieval history.The street fighting was widespread, the town was pillaged in the aftermath, Henry VI was almost killed, and the battle's political consequences proved so problematic for both sides that parliament used official propaganda to conceal the truth.St Albans was, along with other lesser-known battles of the early 1450s, the genesis of the Wars of the Roses, and it is probably the best-documented encounter of the period. The battle heralded the beginning of an intense blood feud that fuelled the civil wars between York and