Only seven years after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean, the first English-led expedition landed in North America.
That is the tantalising possiblity opened up by the publication today of evidence that Henry VII sanctioned a Bristol merchant, William Weston, to set off in search of the “new found land” in 1499.
If you want to read more, the University of Bristol press release has links to the two academic articles, which are now freely available online - courtesy of Wiley-Blackwell:
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