Battle of Blore Heath Battle of Blore Heath The Battle of Blore Heath was one of the first major battles in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. Blore Heath itself is a sparsely populated area of farmland, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the towns of Market Drayton and Loggerheads, Staffordshire. After the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, an uneasy peace held in England. Attempts at reconciliation between the houses of Lancaster and York enjoyed but marginal success. However, both sides became
The Wars of the Roses (adaptation) House of York The Commons The French The House of York The House of Lancaster Reconcilers of the Two Houses The Commons In 1966, the production was repeated on BBC 1 where it was re-edited into eleven episodes of fifty minutes each. In June 2016, Illuminations Media released the series on DVD for the first time. Presented in the original three-play format, the box-set also included a new "Making of" featurette, featuring interviews with David Warner and Janet Suzman. The Wars of the Roses (adaptation) The Wars of the Roses was a 1963 theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical