BOOKS ON THE WARS OF THE ROSES BY GEOFFREY RICHARDSON.
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Photograph by Becky Vacara.
Geoffrey Richardson, after 40 years spent promoting the exports of the British Wool Textile Industry, for which the Queen presented him with the Order of the British Empire, retired early to care for his disabled wife. This enabled him to return to an early love - the Military History of his native England - and to produce his first book "THE HOLLOW CROWNS", a History of the Battles of the Wars of the Roses.
It was while researching the final Chapters of this History that he stumbled on (his own words) an entirely new solution to the mystery of the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Encouraged, to develop his train of thought further, he undertook a programme of intensive research into events between 1483 and 1500 and was surprised to say the least (again his own words) by what was revealed. The results of this later research were set down in detail in his second work, "THE DECEIVERS", the solution to the murder of the Princes in the Tower.
Richardson broke new ground again with "THE LORDLY ONES" the first-ever History of the Nevilles, that great, turbulent family which played a key role in the history of England through the 14th and 15th Centuries and, most dramatically, in the Wars of the Roses.
And now, another first, "THE POPINJAYS" the history of the Woodvilles from their early beginnings to the brief reign of the only member of that family to sit on Engand's throne as Monarch of the realm. Early reviewers say "...this one may be his best yet..."
All of the above books are available at 
Published by
Baildon Books
Web page coding P Vacara 2000
