Access to History: Lancastrians, Yorkists and the Wars of the Roses, 1399–1509, Third Edition
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English
ISBN
9781510459311
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Title Page
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Contents
Dedication
Introduction: about this book
Chapter 1: Context: England in the fifteenth century
1: The kingdom of England
2: Government and administration
3: Society and economy
4: The Church and religion
5: England and its continental neighbours
Chapter 2: Henry IV and the origins of dynastic crisis 1399–1413
1: Fifteenth-century England
2: England and Europe in the fifteenth century
3: The deposition of Richard II
4: The troubled reign of Henry IV
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Chapter 3: Henry V and the war in France 1413–22
1: Henry V: the warrior king
2: Henry V and the conquest of France
3: Key debate: Was Henry V an ‘able but short-sighted adventurer’?
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Chapter 4: ‘Under-mighty monarch’: Henry VI 1422–53
1: Henry VI: politics, government and the king
2: Tension between Crown and nobility
3: Women and power at court: Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor Cobham
4: Failure in France
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Chapter 5: Henry VI and the challenges to the crown 1453–61
1: Origins of the Wars of the Roses
2: The rise of Richard, Duke of York
3: The fall of the House of Lancaster
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Chapter 6: The first reign of Edward IV 1461–70
1: Edward IV: consolidation of Yorkist power and the restoration of order
2: Edward IV and the nobility
3: The king and the ‘kingmaker’: Edward IV and the Earl of Warwick
4: Warwick’s rebellion and the restoration of Henry VI 1469–71
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Chapter 7: The second reign of Edward IV 1471–83
1: Edward IV restored: establishing the Yorkist dynasty
2: The politics of rivalry: Clarence and Gloucester
3: Government and administration
4: Parliament and finance
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Chapter 8: ‘Triumph and tragedy’: Richard III 1483–5
1: Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the overthrow of Edward V
2: Challenges to Richard’s rule
3: Politics and government in the reign of Richard III
4: Bosworth Field and the overthrow of Richard III
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Chapter 9: ‘The son of prophecy’: Henry VII 1485–1509
1: Establishing the dynasty: pretenders, protests and threats
2: Government, law and the maintenance of order
3: Seeking solvency: financial policy
4: Seeking security: foreign policy
5: Key debate: What was the ‘New Monarchy’ and why did it lead to so much debate among historians?
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Exam focus: AQA
Exam focus: OCR
Exam focus: Pearson Edexcel
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