Into Battle Over Bosworth

Here, Skidmore praises Colin Richmond's 1985 article, which offered a new theory, later confirmed, about the true location of one of the most famous battles in English history. He says articles that turn history on its head are rare, but this is what Richmond's piece, The Battle of Boswort...

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Published in:History today 2014-06, Vol.64 (6), p.72-72
Main Author: Skidmore, Chris
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
European history
Richmond, Colin
War
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Summary:Here, Skidmore praises Colin Richmond's 1985 article, which offered a new theory, later confirmed, about the true location of one of the most famous battles in English history. He says articles that turn history on its head are rare, but this is what Richmond's piece, The Battle of Bosworth, achieved, demolishing centuries of accepted wisdom about where the fateful encounter between Richard III and Henry Tudor in 1485 was fought, so transforming our entire understanding of the event. Historians have long known that the original name for Bosworth was the battle of Redemore; that the battle had been fought upon a plain; and that Richard III had been swept off his horse by Sir William Stanley's men into a marsh.
ISSN:0018-2753