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'One after another all the nobles plucked red or white roses and put them in their caps', 15th century, (1905). The founding of the Houses of York and Lancaster; Richard, Duke of York, and Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, pluck roses in the Temple gardens in London. The white rose came to represent York, and the red Lancaster. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd, (London and Edinburgh, 1905). The book gave a very biased and pro-British view of history.