Dan Jones
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3,287 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Dan Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Henry is hardly networked into English politics.
His mum has been doing all that on his behalf.
But for some reason
He smells trouble.
So instead of coming ashore in person, he decides to weigh anchor and head back across the Channel to Normandy.
Like Eminem in Eight Mile, he knows you only get one shot.
This isn't it.
With Buckingham's head rolling in the dirt in Salisbury Marketplace, and Henry Tudor's ships heading back the way they came, the rebellion against Richard fizzles out.
and in surviving it, Richard seems actually to have been strengthened.
The Duke of Buckingham has gone full sleepy hollow, so he'll never have the chance to become Warwick the Kingmaker 2.0.
The old diehards, loyal to Edward IV and the Woodvilles, have blown their cover, so they now have to get out of the country fast or die.
To capitalise on his survival, Richard makes a couple of canny plays.
One is to pass a law offering poor people affordable access to the Royal Law Courts, a populist move designed to reinforce his man of the people look.
The second is to use the first parliament of his reign in January 1484 to complete the political purge of the realm.
He uses Parliament to legally condemn the supposedly illegal marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville and state that he is the only legitimate king of the House of York.
Then he passes dozens of acts of attainder, removing the lands and titles of a large number of his enemies.
The Woodville males who haven't been killed are removed from the nobility.
Bishop Morton of Ely has all his non-church lands taken away.
And Margaret Beaufort has all her possessions removed from her and transferred to her husband Lord Stanley.
That's a compromise Richard takes to avoid antagonizing the most powerful lord in North West England.
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