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Less than 100 years after the Black Death, England was again uprooted by dramatic upheaval. The Wars of the Roses, fought between the two powerful houses of York and Lancaster, pitted families against each other. The series of conflicts \u2013 which took place between 1455 and 1485 \u2013 spanned multiple different reigns, involved numerous foreign kingdoms, and heralded changes in English politics, social order and battlefield technology.\nIn this first episode of our two-part series, we\u2019re joined by Curator of Collections and Interiors Dickon Whitewood to discuss what the Wars of the Roses were, how they started and the early battles that ended with Yorkist triumph.\nTo discover more about medieval warfare, go to www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/medieval/war\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices