@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
John Morton survived the Lancastrian, Yorkist and Tudor regimes. 🏰👑 @nathenamin.bsky.social explains how that experience gave Henry VII's court invaluable knowledge of how to keep an insecure crown once you've taken it. ⚔️
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Warwick the Kingmaker: brilliant politician and military genius? 👀 @nathenamin.bsky.social looks at how much of that reputation came from Warwick himself — and the propaganda he circulated across Europe. 📜⚔️
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Thirty years of Wars of the Roses sounds like relentless medieval warfare. ⚔️ But @nathenamin.bsky.social argues the reality was far more stop-start — nobles raised forces, fought, then dealt with the fallout. 🏰
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Richard III may have been targeted by Tudor propaganda, but @nathenamin.bsky.social points out that Richard used plenty of his own. 👑📜 Attacking Henry Tudor was part of the same political game. ⚔️
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Henry Tudor didn't simply appear from nowhere. 👑 @nathenamin.bsky.social explains how the Yorkist destruction of Lancastrian rivals helped create the opportunity for this relatively obscure Welsh claimant to climb towards the throne. 🏰⚔️
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
The Tudor purge gets remembered. The Yorkist purge gets forgotten. 👑⚔️ @nathenamin.bsky.social explains how Edward IV's destruction of Lancastrian rivals helped create the opportunity for Henry Tudor to rise. 🩸
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
The Tudor purge wasn't the whole story. 👀🩸 @nathenamin.bsky.social takes us back to the Yorkist destruction of Lancastrian royal rivals — and explains how that helped create the opportunity for Henry Tudor to rise. 👑⚔️
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨
Tudor propaganda gets all the attention, but @nathenamin.bsky.social argues the Yorkists were already playing the game. 👀📜 Spin, accusations, imagery and political myth-making were well established before Henry VII arrived. 👑⚔️
