Chris Skidmore - Bosworth -The Birth of the Tudors
Chris Skidmore - Bosworth -The Birth of the Tudors
2013-05-22 10:39:00
Has just arrived.
A fat book - 400 pages - over 300 devoted to the battle and before. Nice pictures. A lot on Buckingham rebellion. We shall see.
Pity about the cover showing a soldier of the wrong era but Skidmore's picture makes him look like a model. Well he is an MP.
No to be fair, he's an FRHA and we need younger historians.
On dipping there seems to be an awful lot of reliance on Croyland and 'chroniclers' everything they say is recited as fact. Indeed that is frightening. So we have More's version of the Tower meeting as though Skidmore had been there. Now I know we go on about Hicks and his 'might have' and 'could have' but to have witness reports treated as fact ...... I would say it's a book aimed at blokes (am I insulting them?)with little character analysis, just this happened and then that happened (as told by the chroniclers of course). And in the chapter on the carpark PL and JAH don't exist at all. It was Leicester Unis idea.
Oh dear. Get back to Stillington Hilary (who incidentally doesn't get a mention in the book at all!)
A fat book - 400 pages - over 300 devoted to the battle and before. Nice pictures. A lot on Buckingham rebellion. We shall see.
Pity about the cover showing a soldier of the wrong era but Skidmore's picture makes him look like a model. Well he is an MP.
No to be fair, he's an FRHA and we need younger historians.
On dipping there seems to be an awful lot of reliance on Croyland and 'chroniclers' everything they say is recited as fact. Indeed that is frightening. So we have More's version of the Tower meeting as though Skidmore had been there. Now I know we go on about Hicks and his 'might have' and 'could have' but to have witness reports treated as fact ...... I would say it's a book aimed at blokes (am I insulting them?)with little character analysis, just this happened and then that happened (as told by the chroniclers of course). And in the chapter on the carpark PL and JAH don't exist at all. It was Leicester Unis idea.
Oh dear. Get back to Stillington Hilary (who incidentally doesn't get a mention in the book at all!)
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