ROYAL MAIL (UK) in May 2021 issued a Presentation Park on The Wars of the Roses. The Pack included eight Special Stamps by artist Graham Turner’s paintings. The stamps depict the events between 1455 and 1487, when England was torn apart by a series of violent struggles for the throne. Historian and researcher Dr David Grummitt has detailed the series of bloody battles in a short essay that uses a Gothic font to give it an authentic feel for the period.
A The Wars of the Roses timeline features a summary of each conflict depicted on the stamps:
- Two Second Class, two First Class, two £1.70 and two £2.55 stamps presented as four horizontal se-tenant pairs.
- Two Second Class, two First Class, two £1.70 and two £2.55 stamps presented as four horizontal se-tenant pairs.
- Second Class - Battle of Bosworth, 1485
- Second Class - Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471
- First Class - Battle of Barnet, 1471
- First Class - Battle of Edgecote Moor, 1469
- £1.70 - Battle of Towton, 1461
- £1.70 - Battle of Wakefield, 1460
- £2.55 - Battle of Northampton, 1460
- £2.55 - First Battle of St Albans, 1455
- Second Class - Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471
- First Class - Battle of Barnet, 1471
- First Class - Battle of Edgecote Moor, 1469
- £1.70 - Battle of Towton, 1461
- £1.70 - Battle of Wakefield, 1460
- £2.55 - Battle of Northampton, 1460
- £2.55 - First Battle of St Albans, 1455
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