Painting of Henry II

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A vintage colour lithograph depicting King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. The battle of Bosworth (or Bosworth Field) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York. (Photo by Getty Images)

The battle for Bosworth field: Historians react to decision to build on battlefield where Richard III died

The ‘Princes in the Tower’: Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, disappeared in mysterious circumstances following the death of their father, King Edward IV. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 notorious unsolved crimes from history

Historian John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV

When royals marry ‘commoners’: a brief history

The ‘Princes in the Tower’

The 5 greatest mysteries behind the Wars of the Roses

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

History quiz – prison escapes and the princes in the Tower

Portrait of Henry V of England

My history hero: Henry V

Richard III: A hostage to fortune

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

A 19th-century illustration depicting the battle of Agincourt.

Books interview with Ranulph Fiennes: "The Hundred Years' War was caused by my ancestor's advice being ignored"

Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with 'The White Queen' writer Philippa Gregory

Laurence Olivier plays Richard III in the 1955 film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. In it, the controversial monarch is damned as everything from a "bottled spider" and "lump of foul deformity" to a "poisonous bunch-backed toad". (Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Why did Shakespeare revile Richard III?

A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

An A to Z of the Plantagenets

The medieval castle in the English county of Kent

The King and his castle: how Henry II rebuilt his reputation

The LibraryAn adulterous scandal and a grisly end