A.W. Boardman
@historymondays.bsky.social
Author & Historian | Exploring #Towton1461, the Wars of the Roses & medieval military history⚔️
For deeper insights join me at: historymondays.substack.com
For deeper insights join me at: historymondays.substack.com
The Battle of Bosworth Field, 22nd August 1485, painting in oil on canvas by William Bass, 1839.
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Battle of Bosworth Field, 22nd August 1485, painting in oil on canvas by William Bass, 1839.
A thought for today for all you scriveners out there…If you agree, retweet, there are plenty of us out there looking for love!
August 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A thought for today for all you scriveners out there…If you agree, retweet, there are plenty of us out there looking for love!
If you’re a pie lover like me, you’ll love this charitable legend!
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you’re a pie lover like me, you’ll love this charitable legend!
Don’t miss next weeks newsletter from: historymondays.substack.com featuring my controversial two-part article on the legendary #WarsoftheRoses battle of Mortimer’s Cross (1461) and why it wasn’t a pitched ‘battle’ at all.
August 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Don’t miss next weeks newsletter from: historymondays.substack.com featuring my controversial two-part article on the legendary #WarsoftheRoses battle of Mortimer’s Cross (1461) and why it wasn’t a pitched ‘battle’ at all.
Warlike. Unyielding. Queen of England.
This 1460s medal by sculptor Pietro da Milano captures Margaret of Anjou - Henry VI’s fierce consort during the Wars of the Roses. The AI illustration reimagines her, aged 30, using the haunting profile.
#MedievalHistory #WarsoftheRoses
This 1460s medal by sculptor Pietro da Milano captures Margaret of Anjou - Henry VI’s fierce consort during the Wars of the Roses. The AI illustration reimagines her, aged 30, using the haunting profile.
#MedievalHistory #WarsoftheRoses
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Warlike. Unyielding. Queen of England.
This 1460s medal by sculptor Pietro da Milano captures Margaret of Anjou - Henry VI’s fierce consort during the Wars of the Roses. The AI illustration reimagines her, aged 30, using the haunting profile.
#MedievalHistory #WarsoftheRoses
This 1460s medal by sculptor Pietro da Milano captures Margaret of Anjou - Henry VI’s fierce consort during the Wars of the Roses. The AI illustration reimagines her, aged 30, using the haunting profile.
#MedievalHistory #WarsoftheRoses
A Friday thought…
August 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
A Friday thought…
…and by his light did all the chivalry of England move. To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass wherein the noble youth did dress themselves’
#OTD The battle of Shrewsbury 1403. Read all about it in my book: www.amazon.co.uk/Hotspur-Henr...
#OTD The battle of Shrewsbury 1403. Read all about it in my book: www.amazon.co.uk/Hotspur-Henr...
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
…and by his light did all the chivalry of England move. To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass wherein the noble youth did dress themselves’
#OTD The battle of Shrewsbury 1403. Read all about it in my book: www.amazon.co.uk/Hotspur-Henr...
#OTD The battle of Shrewsbury 1403. Read all about it in my book: www.amazon.co.uk/Hotspur-Henr...
Panoramic view of Towton battlefield (1461) taken in 1976. I patched this together from single shots before iPhones and the like. It shows the full extent of the Yorkist position seen from the Lancastrian lines beside the memorial cross. Tempus fugit.
July 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Panoramic view of Towton battlefield (1461) taken in 1976. I patched this together from single shots before iPhones and the like. It shows the full extent of the Yorkist position seen from the Lancastrian lines beside the memorial cross. Tempus fugit.
AI has its uses. The Siege of London 12-14 May 1471: The Battle of Aldgate. Read more here 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
July 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
AI has its uses. The Siege of London 12-14 May 1471: The Battle of Aldgate. Read more here 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
#OTD 1483 👑👑. Richard III and his wife the Lady Anne, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896. Always liked this painting, but it still fascinates me how the ‘Shakespearian Richard’ has always crept into art and media over the years. No wonder we have the wrong idea of his real character.
July 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#OTD 1483 👑👑. Richard III and his wife the Lady Anne, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896. Always liked this painting, but it still fascinates me how the ‘Shakespearian Richard’ has always crept into art and media over the years. No wonder we have the wrong idea of his real character.
Looking forward to reading [email protected]
July 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Looking forward to reading [email protected]
As a medievalist, I found this article very interesting. Increasing inequality; the privatization of infrastructure, security, finances - we’ve seen this before. Are we headed for a new feudal age? Or are we already in it! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
July 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
As a medievalist, I found this article very interesting. Increasing inequality; the privatization of infrastructure, security, finances - we’ve seen this before. Are we headed for a new feudal age? Or are we already in it! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Explore the history of Pontefract Castle through this interactive version of Alexander Keirincx's painting! wakefieldmuseumsandlibraries.blogspot.com/p/pontefract...
June 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Explore the history of Pontefract Castle through this interactive version of Alexander Keirincx's painting! wakefieldmuseumsandlibraries.blogspot.com/p/pontefract...
If you like #medieval #history and want to know more about the Siege of London and the death of Henry VI in 1471, you can get my book here: buff.ly/4h5qlIT
June 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you like #medieval #history and want to know more about the Siege of London and the death of Henry VI in 1471, you can get my book here: buff.ly/4h5qlIT
Excited to be joining @Mattlewishistory.bsky.social for a chat on 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 this week! We’re diving into my new book The Rose, The Bastard & The Saint King - expect rebels, battles, thrones, and a few bloody surprises⚔️🥀👑 #Medieval
#Podcast📚buff.ly/4h5qlIT
#Podcast📚buff.ly/4h5qlIT
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excited to be joining @Mattlewishistory.bsky.social for a chat on 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 this week! We’re diving into my new book The Rose, The Bastard & The Saint King - expect rebels, battles, thrones, and a few bloody surprises⚔️🥀👑 #Medieval
#Podcast📚buff.ly/4h5qlIT
#Podcast📚buff.ly/4h5qlIT
French castles. The art of Jean-Claude Golvin with a nice medieval depiction of Carcassonne.
June 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
French castles. The art of Jean-Claude Golvin with a nice medieval depiction of Carcassonne.
What’s going on here? Bosworth?
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What’s going on here? Bosworth?
🗣️ Get your copy of my new book at: buff.ly/4h5qlIT
June 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🗣️ Get your copy of my new book at: buff.ly/4h5qlIT
I love a good map. Spot the battles…
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I love a good map. Spot the battles…
The battle of Stoke was the last major battle of the Wars of the Roses. It was a victory for the Earl of Oxford & Henry VII ‘in absentia’. But is this really where the elder surviving Prince in the Tower (Edward V) died fighting #OTD in 1487?
Computer (AI) says no 🧐 typically!
Computer (AI) says no 🧐 typically!
June 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The battle of Stoke was the last major battle of the Wars of the Roses. It was a victory for the Earl of Oxford & Henry VII ‘in absentia’. But is this really where the elder surviving Prince in the Tower (Edward V) died fighting #OTD in 1487?
Computer (AI) says no 🧐 typically!
Computer (AI) says no 🧐 typically!
This is my bestselling book about the legendary battle of Palm Sunday Field. The reality was far more horrifying and indescribable than I could ever put into words…
www.amazon.co.uk/Towton-1461-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Towton-1461-...
June 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This is my bestselling book about the legendary battle of Palm Sunday Field. The reality was far more horrifying and indescribable than I could ever put into words…
www.amazon.co.uk/Towton-1461-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Towton-1461-...
Thank you for the great review David Grummitt…
‘Boardman has provided an extremely valuable survey of the Kent rebellion in the autumn of 1470 and Fauconberg’s Rebellion of 1471. A very good, and a much-needed, history of this aspect of the Wars of the Roses’
#Medievalsky 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
‘Boardman has provided an extremely valuable survey of the Kent rebellion in the autumn of 1470 and Fauconberg’s Rebellion of 1471. A very good, and a much-needed, history of this aspect of the Wars of the Roses’
#Medievalsky 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
June 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you for the great review David Grummitt…
‘Boardman has provided an extremely valuable survey of the Kent rebellion in the autumn of 1470 and Fauconberg’s Rebellion of 1471. A very good, and a much-needed, history of this aspect of the Wars of the Roses’
#Medievalsky 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
‘Boardman has provided an extremely valuable survey of the Kent rebellion in the autumn of 1470 and Fauconberg’s Rebellion of 1471. A very good, and a much-needed, history of this aspect of the Wars of the Roses’
#Medievalsky 📚 buff.ly/4h5qlIT
Sackage, Carnage and Wreckage. My latest post from History Mondays! #Medievalsky historymondays.substack.com/p/sackage-ca...
June 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sackage, Carnage and Wreckage. My latest post from History Mondays! #Medievalsky historymondays.substack.com/p/sackage-ca...
Don’t forget the second part of my story about Cade’s Rebellion of 1450 is out on Monday historymondays.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Don’t forget the second part of my story about Cade’s Rebellion of 1450 is out on Monday historymondays.substack.com
Read all about the long forgotten story of the siege of London and the murder of Henry VI in my new book. Available in all good bookshops now! buff.ly/4h5qlIT #London #Medieval #History #book #nonfiction @TheHistoryPress
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Read all about the long forgotten story of the siege of London and the murder of Henry VI in my new book. Available in all good bookshops now! buff.ly/4h5qlIT #London #Medieval #History #book #nonfiction @TheHistoryPress