Richard III Biographies and Other Sources

Carson, Annette, Richard III: The Maligned King,The The History Press Ltd, 2008.
Cheetham, Anthony, The Life and Times of Richard III, 1972; reprinted 1992.
Cunningham, Sean, Richard III: A Royal Enigma, National Archives & Records Administration, 2003.
Dockray, Keith, Richard III: A Reader in History, Sutton Publishing, 1989.
Dockray, Keith, Richard III: A Source Book, The History Press, 2000.
Gairdner, James, History of the Life and Reign of Richard III, 1898.
Gill, Louise, Richard III and Buckinghams Rebellion, Sutton Publishing, 2000.
Gillingham, John, Editor, Richard III: A Medieval Kingship, Palgrave MacMillan, 1993.
Hallstead, Caroline, Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England, Adamant Media
Corporation, 2002.
Hammond, P.W., Richard III Lordship Loyalty and Law, England, 1986.
Hammond, P.W., & Sutton, A., Richard III The Road to Bosworth Field, London 1985.
Hicks, Michael A., Richard III: The Man Behind the Myth, Tempus, 1991.
Hipshon, David, Richard III, Routledge, 2009.
Horrox, R., Richard III A Study in Service, England, 1989.
Horrox, R., Richard III and the North, England, 1986.
Hughes, Jonathan, The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety & Prayer in the North of England, Sutton
Publishing, 2000.
Kendall, Paul Murray, Richard III, New York, 1955.
Kendall, Paul Murray, Editor, Richard III: The Great Debate, W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.
Kincaid, A.N., and Ramsden, J.A., Editors, The Encomium of Richard III by Sir William Cornwallis,
1977.
Littleton, T., and Rea, R., To Prove a Villain: The Case for Richard III, Mac Millan, 1964.
Moore, James, Richard III: An Annotated Biography, Garland Publishing, 1986.
Petre, James, Editor, Richard III: Crown and People, Richard III Society, 1993.
Pollard, A.J. Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, 1991.
Pollard, A.J., The Worlds of Richard III, Tempus, 2001.
Potter, Jeremy, Good King Richard?, Constable, 1985.
Ross, Charles, Richard III, London, 1981.
Seward, Desmond, Richard III Englands Black Legend, England, 1983.
Sutton, Anne F., The 1483 Gloucester Charter in History, Alan Sutton, 1983.
Sutton, Anne F., and Hammond, P.W., Editors, The Coronation of Richard III: The Extant Documents,
1983.
Sutton, Anne F., and Visser-Fuchs, Livia, The Hours of Richard III, Sutton Publishing, 2000.
Wood, Charles T., Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages, Oxford
University Press, 1988.

Personages of the Wars of the Roses Biographies and Histories

Arthurson, Ian, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy 1491 1499, England, 1977.
Bagley, J.J., Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, London, 1948.
Baldwin, David, Elizabeth Woodville; mother of the princes in the Tower, 2003.
Baldwin, David, The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York, The History Press Ltd, 2007.
Baldwin, David, The Kingmakers Sisters, The History Press Ltd Ltd., 2009.
Barber, Richard, The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses, Penguin Group, 1981.
Barnard, F., Edward IVs French Expedition, London, 1975.
Beeston, David, A Strange Accident of State: Henry VII and the Lambert Simnel Conspiracy, Birchwood
Publications, 1987.
Bennett, H.S., The Pastons and Their England, Cambridge, 1932.
Bevan, Bryan, Henry VII: The First Tudor King, Rubicon Press, 2000.

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Brenan, G., The House of Percy, 2 vols., England, 1898.
Brindley, David, Richard Beauchamp, Tempus, 2001.
Castor, Helen, Blood and Roses: One family's struggle and triumph during the tumultuous Wars of the
Roses, Harper Collins, 2004.
Chrimes, S.B., Henry VII, London, 1952.
Clive, M., The Sun of York, Edward IV, London, 1973.
Costain, Thomas, The Last Plantagenets, 1962.
Coward, B., The Stanleys, Lord Stanley and Earls of Derby 1385 1672, England, 1983.
Crawford, Anne, Letters of the Queens of England.
Crawford, Anne, The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty, Hambledon & London, 2008.
Crosland, Margaret, Mysterious Mistress: The Life and Legend of Jane Shore, The History Press Ltd Ltd,
2006.
Cunningham, Sean, Henry VII, Routledge, 2007.
Davis, Norman, Editor, Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, 2 vols., Oxford, 1971-76.
Dockray, Keith, Chronicles of the Reign of Edward IV, England, 1983.
Dockray, Keith, Edward IV: A Source Book, Sutton Publishing, 1999.
Falkus, G., The Life and Times of Edward IV, London 1981.
Fields, Bertram, Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes, Regan Books, 1998.
Gies, Frances, and Joseph, A Medieval Family: The Pastons of the Fifteenth Century.
Grant, A., Henry VII, London, 1985.
Hallam, Elizabeth, Editor, The Plantagenet Chronicles,Weidenfield and Nicholson.
Hallam, Elizabeth, Editor, The Plantagenet Encyclopedia, Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1990.
Hanham, Alison, The Celys and Their World: An English Merchant Family of the Middle Ages,
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Harvey, John, The Plantagenets.
Haswell, Jock, The Ardent Queen Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrian Heritage, Peter Davies, 1976.
Hicks, Michael A., Anne Neville Queen to Richard III, Tempus, 2006.
Hicks, Michael A., Edward V: The Prince in the Tower, The History Press Ltd, 2003.
Hicks, Michael A., False, Fleeting Perjurd Clarence, George Duke of Clarence, England 1980.
Hicks, Michael A., Warwick the Kingmaker, Wiley Blackwell, 2002.
Horrox, Rosemary, Editor, Financial Memoranda of the Reign of Edward V, Camden Miscellany, xxix,
4th ser. 34.
Hughes, John, Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV, Sutton Publishing, 2002.
Jenkins, Elizabeth, The Princes in the Tower, Phoenix Press, 1978.
Johnson, P.A., Richard, Duke of York 1411 1460, London, 1988.
Jones, Michael K., and Underwood, Malcolm G., The Kings Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort,
Countess of Richmond and Derby, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Kendall, Paul Murray, Louis XI: The Universal Spider, Phoenix Press, 1971.
Kendall, Paul Murray, Warwick the Kingmaker, New York, 1957.
Kleineke, Hannes, Edward IV, Routledge, 2008.
Kleyn, Diana, Richard of England, The Kensal Press, 1990.
Kingsford, C.L., Editor, The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483. 2 vols., Camden Society, 1919, 1921.
Laynesmith, Joanna, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503, Oxford University Press,
2004.
MacGibbon, David, Elizabeth Woodville, 1437-1492.
Noble, Elizabeth, The World of the Stonors, Brewer Ltd., 2009.
Okerlund, Arlene, Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen, Tempus, 2005.
Pollard, A.J., Warwick the Kingmaker: Politics, Power, and Fame, Hamildon Continuum, 2007.
Ricca, Joe Ann, Francis, Viscount Lovel: Time Reveals All Things, The Richard III Foundation, Inc., 2005.
Richardson, Geoffrey, The Lordly Ones: A History of the Neville Family and Their Part in the Wars of the
Roses, Baildon Books, 1998.
Richardson, Geoffrey, The Deceivers: The Solution to the Murder of the Princes in the Tower, Baildon
Books, 1997.

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Richardson, Geoffrey, The Popinjays: a History of the Woodville Family, Baildon Books, 2000.
Richardson, Geoffrey, A Pride of Bastards: A History of the Beaufort Family, Baildon Books, 2002.
Richmond, Colin, The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase.
Ross, Charles, Edward IV, London, 1974.
Scofield, Cora, The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, 2 vols., London, 1967.
Simons, E. N., Reign of Edward IV, London, 1966.
Sinclair, Alexandra, Editor, The Beauchamp Pageant, Paul Watkins, 2003.
Vaughan, Richard, Charles the Bold, Boydell Press, 2004.
Virgoe, Roger, Editor Private Life in the Fifteenth Century: Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family,
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989.
Warrington, John, Editor, The Paston Letters, 2 Vols.
Weightman, Christine, Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy 1446-1503, Palgrave Macmillan, 1993.
Williamson, Audrey, The Murder of the Princes, England, 1978.

Battles of the Wars of the Roses

First Battle of St. Albans May 22, 1455

Boardman, Andrew, The First Battle of St. Albans 1455, The The History Press Ltd Ltd., 2006.
Burley, Peter, Elliot, Michael, and Watson, Harvey, The Battles of St. Albans, Pen and Sword
Military, 2007.

Blore Heath September 23, 1459

Parry, Nicholas, Editor, Battle of Blore Heath, Tern P., 1987.

Swynnerton, Brian, Battle of Blore Heath, 1459, P. Griffith Associates, 1995.

Northampton July 10, 1460

English Heritage, Battlefield Report: Northampton 1460, 1995.

Wakefield December 30, 1460

Haigh, P.A., The Battle of Wakefield, England, 1996.

Mortimers Cross February 2, 1461

Hodges, Geoffrey, Ludford Bridge and Mortimers Cross, Logaston Ltd., 1988.

Second Battle of St. Albans February 17, 1461

Burley, Peter, Elliot, Michael, and Watson, Harvey, The Battles of St. Albans, Pen and Sword
Military, 2007.

Towton March 29, 1461

Boardman, Andrew, The Battle of Towton, England, 1994.

Boardman, Andrew, The Battle of Towton: New Revised Edition: The Bloodiest Battle, The
History Press Ltd, 2009.
Fiorato, V., Boylston, A. & Knussel, C., Editors, Blood and Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass
Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461,Oxford, 2000.

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Gravett, Christopher, and Turner, Graham, Towton 1461: Englands Bloodiest Battle, Osprey
Campaign, 2003.
Hedgeley Moor April 24, 1464

Rickard, J., Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 25 April 1464, 2000.

Hexham Mary 14, 1464

Sadler, John, and Speirs, Alex, Battle of Hexham in Its Place, Ergo Press, 2007.

Bamburgh Castle June, 1464

Sadler, John, Battle for Northumbria, Bridge Studios, 1988.

Edgecote July 26, 1469 and Empingham (Losecoat Field) March 12, 1470

Haigh, P.A., Where both the hosts fought - The Rebellion of 1469-1470 and the Battles of
Edgecote and Lose-Coat Field, Battlefield Press, 1997.

Barnet April 14, 1471

Clark, David, Barnet 1471: The Death of the Kingmaker, Pen and Sword Military, 2006.
Hammond, P.W., The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, New York, 1990.

Tewkesbury- May 4, 1471

Goodchild, Steve, Tewkesbury 1471, Leo Cooper, Ltd, 2005.

Gravett, Christopher, and Turner, Graham, Tewkesbury 1471: The Last Yorkist Victory, Osprey
Publishing, 2003.
Hammond, P.W., The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, New York, 1990.
Wheeler, Geoffrey, Battle of Tewkesbury 1471 A Roll of Arms.

Bosworth August 22, 1485

Austin, John D., Merevale Abbey and Local Evidence, 2003.

Bennet, Michael, The Battle of Bosworth, New York, 1985.
Foss, Peter J., The Field of Redemore Plain: The Battle of Bosworth, England, 1990.
Foss, Peter J., The History of Market Bosworth, Sycamore Press, Wymondham, Leicestershire,
1983.
Gravett, Christopher, Bosworth 1485, Last Charge of the Plantagenets, Osprey Publishing, 1999.
Hallam, Elizabeth, Editor, Plantagenet Encyclopedia: From the Origins of the Angevin Dynasty
to the
Battle of Bosworth Field -- The Essential Guide to the Plantagenet, Grove Press, 1990.
Hutton, W., The Battle of Bosworth Field, Dursley, 1974.
Jones, Emyr Wyn, Bosworth Field and Its Preliminaries.
Jones, Michael K., Bosworth 1485 The Psychology of a Battle, England, 2002.
Rees, David, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, Gomer Press.
Rees, David, The Son of Prophecy, Henry Tudors Road to Bosworth, John Jones Publishing,
1997.
Rowse, A.L., Bosworth Field and the War of the Roses, London, 1966.
Williams, D., The Battle of Bosworth, Bosworth Publications, 1996.
Wright, Ken, The Field of Bosworth, 2002.

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 Stoke Field June 16, 1487

Baldwin, David, Stoke Field: The Last of the Wars of the Roses, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2006.
Bennet, M., Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke, England, 1987.
Roberts, D., The Battle of Stoke, England, 1987.
Wilkinson, Alan, Secret Battle: Stoke Field, 16 June, 1487, Midas of Nottingham, 1987.

The Wars of the Roses

Alderman, C.L., Blood-Red the Roses: The Wars of the Roses.

Allen, K., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1973.
Boardman, Andrew, The Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses, London, 1998.
Bramley, Peter, The Wars of the Roses: A Fieldguide and Companion, The History Press Ltd, 2007.
Carpenter C., The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England c.1437 1509, Cambridge
2002.
Cole, H., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1973.
Cook, D. R., Lancastrians & Yorkists, The Wars of the Roses, London, 1984.
Evans, H.T., Wales and the Wars of the Roses, Alan Sutton, 1977.
Gillingham, John, The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Medieval England, Louisiana State
University Press, 1982.
Goodman, Anthony, The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452-97, London,
1990.
Goodman, Anthony, The Wars of the Roses: The Soldiers' Experience, NPI Media Group, 2006.
Haigh, P.A., The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses, London, 1995.
Haigh, P.A., Medieval Soldier: Men Who Fought the Wars of the Roses, Sutton Publishing, 1997.
Hallam, Elizabeth, Editor, The Wars of the Roses, Weidenfield and Nicholson.
Hallam, Elizabeth, Editor, The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses, London, 1988.
Hicks, Michael A., Wars of the Roses:1455-1485, Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kendall, Paul Murray, The Wars of the Roses, New York, 1957.
Lander, J. R., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1990.
Lander, J.R., The Wars of the Roses, The History Press Ltd, 2007.
Neillands, Robin, The Wars of the Roses, London, 1992.
Osprey, Wars of the Roses (Men at Arms Series).
Pollard, A. J., The Wars of the Roses, England, 1995.
Pollard, A. J., North-eastern England during the Wars of the Roses: War, Politics and Lay Society, 1450
1500, Oxford, 1990.
Richardson, Geoffrey, The Hollow Crowns: a History of the Battles of the Wars of the Roses, Baildon
Books, 1996.
Ross, Charles, Wars of the Roses, London, 1976.
Royle, Trevor, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain,
Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
Seward, Desmond, The Wars of the Roses, London, 1995.
Webster, Bruce, The Wars of the Roses, Routledge, 1998.
Wise, T., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1983.

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