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“Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement for the first time since the Tudors, and even more indignant that the legal and political establishments in all their forms - which included, at that stage, the police - were going to cover up the whole episode. In the event, it turned out that my anxieties were unfounded, as Thorpe was totally innocent of all charges brought against him.”
Auberon Waugh
“As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the twelfth or in the fifteenth century, finding echoes and resonances of our own time; we may recognise that some things, such as piety and passion, are never lost; we may also conclude that the great general drama of the human spirit is ever fresh and ever renewed. That is why some of the greatest writers have preferred to see English history as dramatic or epic poetry, which is just as capable of expressing the power and movement of history as any prose narrative; it is a form of singing around a fire.”
Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors“The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books.”
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