Baltimore Rose's War (2023)

The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'. Yet, far from being a continuous period of civil war, the Wars of the Roses were in fact an intermittent series of minor clashes, pitched battles, and sieges. These occurred against the backdrop of a demilitarization of the English aristocracy in the final years of the Hundred Years War.

Composer, trumpet player, and singer jaimie branch—who died in August 2022 at her Red Hook, Brooklyn home—saw past musical limits.

A team of researchers record memories of the Irish Civil War that were passed on through families and communities throughout Ireland. The group unexpectedly uncovered a trove of audio recordings of men and women central to the Irish revolutionary period on tapes that were in an attic in the United States for 50 years.