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Mar 11 “Despair has its own calms.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula Hey folks, before we start this week’s episode I want to issue a warning. Your discretion is advised. This episode is graphic. And you have my word that I did not make it so. Jon and I teach and discuss history as it is, not as we would like it to be. That means we must be honest. That is our responsibility to you. As a result, please do not listen to this around children or if you are squeamish. I have done my best to mitigate details with certain references, but again, our role here is to present the history to you, and sometimes that leads us down dark paths. The benefit for all of us is that we can do it together, and in doing so, emerge intact on the other side. One last thing, I end this podcast a little differently. I invite you, as always, to push back. Let me know your thoughts so we can discuss them next week. Anyway, enough preamble. Darkness is ahead. Let’s face it together. Vlad Dracula was born in ...

Brent Cooper  ·  Originally Answered: What are the 5 greatest mysteries behind the War of the Roses? Here are the 5 greatest mysteries as determined by Dan Jones, author of The Hollow Crown. 1 What was really wrong with King Henry VI? “Henry VI (1422–60 and 1470–71) was comfortably the most incompetent king of the whole Plantagenet line, and his benign but ultimately disastrous rule began the series of conflicts that we now call the Wars of the Roses.“ “The crisis broke in 1453 when Henry appears to have suffered a near-complete mental collapse. He stopped responding to other people; he didn’t recognise his own wife or newborn son; and for several months he was completely helpless and utterly withdrawn from the world. One contemporary said the king was “smitten with a frenzy”. “The obvious comparison was with Henry’s grandfather Charles VI of France, who had suffered similarly long bouts of madness in which he attacked his courtiers, smeared himself in his own waste and s...