Battle of Towton
March 29, 1461
"A battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought in a snowstorm near Tadcaster in Yorkshire. The Lancastrians were defeated, suffering heavy casualties, and the Yorkists under Edward IV went on to take York. Henry VI and Queen Margaret fled to Scotland." ("Towton, battle of" from Dictionary of British History)
Tower of London
"[Edward] was deposed in the year of his accession to the throne by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who became Richard III. Edward and his younger brother were imprisoned by their uncle in the Tower of London and were never heard of again." ("Edward, V (1483)" from The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature)
Battle of Bosworth Field
August 22, 1485
"Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven in Wales and advanced to meet Richard III at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire. The treason of the Stanley family after the battle had begun hastened the defeat of Richard, who was killed by the Stanleys' men.... Following his victory, Henry was crowned King Henry VII - the first Tudor monarch." ("Bosworth Field, battle of" from Dictionary of British History)
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck - Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses leading up to and including the Battle of Bosworth
StoryMap: The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1487
The Woman Question, and Queen Victoria's Response.
The woman question of the Victorian era was the questioning of how women fit into society, mostly concerning political and legal rights, especially for women without husbands or without high-class status.
Marshalsea Debtor's Prison
Marshalsea Prison was a prison in South London. In the 19th Century, it was home to many debtors, but it didn’t just imprison debtors. Famously, Charles Dickens’ father, John, was held here. He was imprisoned in 1824, when Dickens was only twelve years old. Dickens was then sent out to make money for his family to repay his father’s debt. This experience impacted much of Dickens’ writing, specifically his novel, Little Dorrit.