Opposing this position are the many Tudor historians who like to claim that the Wars of the Roses represent the final breakdown of the feudal system and lead directly to the Tudor Era and the birth of the modern age.With Dr Helen Castor, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Professor Colin Richmond, Emeritus Professor of History, Keele University Dr Steven Gunn is a Tudor historian and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Merton College, Oxford. The years of 1455-1485 in England is an extraordinary setting filled with conflict, treachery and bloodshed.

Macfarlane argued the political instability is wildly overstated and there were no Wars of the Roses at all. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) fight over the throne, and the Player is thrown into the fray. The Calais Garrison under its captain, Sir. Baron Grey of Ruthyn did defect to the opposition at the battle of Northampton in 1460.

The traitor can be seen behind the opposing enemy company. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Wars of the Roses which have been the scene for many a historical skirmish over the ages: The period in the fifteenth century when the House of Lancaster and the House of York were continually at odds is described by Shakespeare, in the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III as a time of enormous moral, military and political turmoil - the quintessential civil war but twentieth century historians like K.B. War of the Roses is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. The Yorkist ward at bottom left lost it’s commander, Baron Grey of Ruthyn, to the enemy and broke as a consequence.

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