Episode 6 – Battle of Bosworth Special edition with Chris Skidmore

On the 533rd anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, Natalie Grueninger chats with author and historian Chris Skidmore about this hugely important historical event that heralded the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and marked the birth of the Tudors.

Click here to visit Chris Skidmore’s official website.

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Interesting Links:

Church of St James the Greater, Dadlington, where many of the dead were buried after the Battle of Bosworth.

The Dog and Hedgehog Inn, Dadlington.

Bosworth Crucifix (Society of Antiquaries London)

Bosworth Boar

Merevale Abbey (Where Henry Tudor stayed on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth)

http://www.kingbaxgroup.org.uk/html/merevale.html

http://www.baxterley.com/?page_id=763

Books Mentioned

The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy by Ian Arthurson

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

Tudor Takeaways

Tudor primary sources: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/IndexPri.html

Polydore Vergil’s Anglia Historia