North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses Art James O'Connell argues that improvement discourse

O'Connell argues that improvement discourse is embedded in the literary and cultural mainstream of modern Ireland and has hindered the development of intellectual and political debate throughout this period

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North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses Art James O'Connell argues that improvement discourseThis is the first modern scholarly study of north eastern England during the Wars of the Roses. For a fleeting period in the late fifteenth century, the North dominated England: it was both the adopted home and the power base of Richard III. But this is more than simply an account of the rise and fall of the last Plantagenet as the Lord of the North. A. J. Pollard analyses regional politics and the interrelationship between province and centre from