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Heraldic arms associated with John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk

John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk: Reinforcement, P...

Did Norfolk’s late arrival decide Towton, or has the timing of Yorkist reinforcement become too neat in retelling? This Iron Standard biography tests John Mowbray’s shifting politics, East Anglian power,...

Neville family depicted in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours associated with William Neville's family

William Neville, Lord Fauconberg: The Veteran C...

Was William Neville merely one more Neville in the Yorkist coalition, or one of its most experienced professional commanders? This Iron Standard biography tests his French-war background, shift from Lancastrian...

Beaufort ducal heraldry representing the family of Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset

Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset: The Lancastri...

Was Henry Beaufort simply the Lancastrian commander defeated at Towton, or one of the regime’s most durable military-political operators? This Iron Standard biography follows St Albans, Wakefield, Towton, exile, reconciliation...

Jean II Le Maingre, Boucicaut, praying before Saint Catherine in his Book of Hours

Jean II Le Maingre, Boucicaut: Chivalry, Comman...

Was Boucicaut the perfect knight described by his own chivalric biography, or an experienced commander whose career also contained Nicopolis, political failure in Genoa and defeat at Agincourt? This Iron...

Charles d'Albret represented in the fifteenth-century Armorial de Gilles Le Bouvier

Charles d’Albret: The Constable of France at Ag...

Was Charles d’Albret the commander who failed at Agincourt, or a professional constable whose authority was compromised by a coalition of higher-ranking princes? This Iron Standard biography tests the French...

Interpretive map of the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 showing Fenn Lane, the marsh, army positions and final movements

Bosworth 1485: How Richard III Lost the Crown t...

Bosworth was not simply won by betrayal. This Iron Standard investigation combines the Fenn Lane battlefield archaeology with Oxford’s manoeuvre, Stanley ambiguity, Northumberland’s non-intervention and Richard III’s final charge to...

Historical portrait of King Henry VII of England

Henry VII: Bosworth and the Foundation of the T...

Did Henry Tudor become king because he had the best hereditary claim, or because he built the coalition that turned a weak claim into victory and then made victory durable?...

Nineteenth-century engraving of Edward IV rallying Yorkist troops at the Battle of Towton

Towton 1461: Was It Really England’s Bloodiest ...

Towton’s famous 28,000 dead cannot be treated as an audited total. Reconstruct Palm Sunday 1461 from the snowy archery opening and prolonged infantry fight to Norfolk’s reinforcements, Cock Beck, mass...

Late-sixteenth-century portrait of King Richard III of England

Richard III: Protector, King and the Road to Bo...

Was Richard III destroyed by Tudor propaganda, or did the events of 1483 create a real legitimacy crisis that later writers amplified? This Iron Standard biography tests the accession, Princes...

Posthumous painted portrait of King Edward IV of England

Edward IV: Towton, Warwick and the Yorkist Crown

How could one of the Wars of the Roses’ most successful battlefield commanders still lose his crown? This Iron Standard biography tests Edward IV’s victories, Woodville marriage, Warwick split, 1470...

Historical map showing important locations in the Wars of the Roses from St Albans and Towton to Bosworth

Wars of the Roses 1455–1487: Was It Really York...

The Wars of the Roses were not a simple thirty-year contest between two fixed teams carrying red and white roses. This Iron Standard investigation follows Henry VI’s government crisis, shifting...

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, depicted in the fifteenth-century Rous Roll

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: The ‘Kingmaker’

Did Warwick really make kings, or does the ‘Kingmaker’ label exaggerate a magnate whose power depended on coalitions he could mobilise but never permanently control? This Iron Standard biography tests...