Goodman, The Wars of the Roses (1981), p. Armstrong, ‘Politics and the Battle of St Albans, 1455’, BIHR, XXXIII (1960), 7.Ī. Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century (1888), p. 1 In the twentieth century, however, 1399 has largely been abandoned and, instead, historians have offered a variety of dates between 14. 1399 long enjoyed favour as their true beginning: both Lancastrian and Yorkist partisans were wont to find the seeds of conflict in the upheavals of that year Tudor writers, too, felt powerfully drawn to 1399 as the commencement of almost a century of domestic turmoil and, in 1888, William Denton could still confidently declare that ‘the deposition and murder of Richard II and the usurpation of Henry of Lancaster led to the struggle between two branches of the royal family, which is known as the War of the Roses’. Nevertheless, the task is always awesome, particularly when, as with the Wars of the Roses, there is no agreement even on the date the wars commenced.
Lesser practitioners need entertain fewer qualms. Taylor proved so dramatically in 1961 with the launch of his controversial Origins of the Second World War. Even historians of the highest calibre put their reputations on the line when they choose to investigate the causes of wars, as A.
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