Jan 21, 2025 · United Kingdom - 15th Century, England, Politics: Central to all social change in the 15th century was change in the economy. Although plague remained endemic in England, …

English kings in the 14th and 15th centuries laid claim to the French throne, resulting in the Hundred Years' War. At times England enjoyed huge military success, with the economy …

The Kingdom of England emerged from the gradual unification of the early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdoms known as the Heptarchy: East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Essex, Sussex, …

This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up …

Aug 12, 2023 · Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2023. Readers of this chapter might be left with doubts whether England had a constitution in the fifteenth century …

5 days ago · The history of Welsh domestic art from the 16th century, as exhibited in the native furniture, with illustrations together with a study of its relation to the furniture of other parts of …

This 15th-century manuscript illustrates an execution during the Wars of the Roses (1455–85). One of the bloodiest conflicts in English history, the so-called ‘Cousins’ War’ stemmed from a …

The late 15th century in England was a time of political upheaval and dynastic struggle. The Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars between the rival houses of Lancaster and York, had left …

May 26, 2024 · The medieval period was a crucible that forged the nation we now know as England. From the crumbling of Roman order in the 5th century to the violent birth of the Tudor …

The Wars of the Roses can tell us a lot about why England became unstable in the 15th century. Henry VI’s reign shows how important having a strong, warrior king who could control the …