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...public as part of a burgeoning heritage industry. Yet the history relating to historic battlefields is often hard to unravel. There is often little to see above ground and few, if any, traces of the battle remain today, while the historical record is often biased in favour of the victors. This is especially the case with the battles of the Wars of the Roses. The Wars of...

...public grief, to the way such emotions were explored by artists and authors in art and literature. You will also find out how attitudes to shell shock developed after the war. You will study examples of how this topic was represented in art and literature, and you’ll consider how the condition was treated and regarded at different times in the twentieth century...Week...