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 start of a roughly 30-years long conflict over who ...

The last blood-soaked battle in a war to control medieval England has been marked at the site of the clash. The Wars of the Roses saw the Houses of York and Lancaster fight for 30 years from 1455.

It has issued the stamps of key battles to mark the 550th anniversary of the Battle of Tewkesbury, which it said was "one of the defining conflicts of the wars". The Wars of the Roses were a ...