Historian John Davies looks at the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lead-up to the accession of Henry VII and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the ...

Okay, so I’ve gone over the cast, but what exactly is The Roses about? The film, as I said in the introduction, is a reimagining of The War of the Roses, a 1989 film directed by Danny DeVito.

This became known as the First Battle of St Albans, which is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Wars of the Roses. The First Battle of St Albans can be said to mark the ...

a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.