BBC - British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2017) Part 1 The Wars of the Roses
British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.
Part 1 The Wars of the Roses
She begins with the dynastic conflict known today as the Wars of the Roses. Lucy explores how Shakespeare's history plays have fixed the way most people look at the feud between the houses of Lancaster and York. But he based his version of events on a narrative invented and shaped by Henry VII, the victorious Lancastrian who went on to found the Tudor dynasty.
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