Friday 8 September Nathen Amin on Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck and Warwick

On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious. His disparate army vanquished the forces of Richard III, and yet, all was not well… Nathen Amin looks at the myriad of shadowy conspiracies and murky plots which sought to depose the Tudor usurper early in his reign. Just how close did the Tudors come to overthrow long before the myth of their greatness had taken hold on our public consciousness?