Chapter 166- A Great Shedding of Blood (1460-1461) (The Roses of London: 5)
The Story of London by Saul
Episode notes
The saga of London during the Wars of the Roses continues in this fast paced chapter, which covers one of the dramatic few months this nation has ever seen; the city had mostly sided with the Yorkists in the aftermath of the Siege of the Tower of London, but now they had to choose to whom they would swear allegiance to- and they did so in a most dramatic manner. While London as a community took one of the biggest gambles in the history of the City, events elsewhere rocked the nation as the size and scale of the fighting escalated into something this nation had never seen before…
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