EXTRA MEETING DATE – MONDAY 27th MAY 2013
We are delighted to announce an additional talk date for 27th May 2013. Chris Skidmore MP and acclaimed historian will be in the area over the Bank Holiday weekend and has kindly asked to speak to the TBS.The subject will be his latest research and book, Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors Saxton Village Hall Monday [...]
GLOBE THEATRE AT TOWTON – 14TH JULY 2013
Shakespeares Globe Theatre will be coming to Towton on Sunday 14th July . They will be performing the Three Henry IV plays at Towton Hall. Full details can be found on their website at Globe Theatre Ticket price will be £45 per person.
LOYALTY BINDS ME
You will no doubt have seen the exciting news that the body of King Richard III has been identified following the discovery of a skeleton in a Leicester car park. Though Richard did not fight at Towton [he was only 9 at the time] his elder brother, Edward IV, led the Yorkist forces that day. [...]
ROCKINGHAM ARMS – LATEST NEWS
Last week we became aware that the Rockingham Arms had closed and hadn’t traded for a few days and alarm bells began to sound as we thought of all the hard work put into the rooms. All was quickly solved. There has been a last minute and fast paced change of ownership of the lease. [...]
TBS LIBRARY
Work on the display centre at the Rockingham Arms is proceeding and we now have a small library of books for TBS members to borrow. Please see the Display Centre page under the Battlefield Tab for more information.
The Frei Compagnie in 2013
Here is a list of events at which the Frei Compagnie hope to appear this year. March 22 – 24: Palm Sunday Commemoration at Towton Sun April 14, noon – 4pm: Lead ChurchOpen Day, Crooked Billet, Saxton Sun April 21: Morley St George’s Day multi-period event Sat May 18: Sherburn Gala Sat June 8: Wistow [...]
Another TBS member in print!
Martin Tarpey, one of our longest serving members, active for many years and our former Chair has published a superb Childrens book. Take a look, have a read. Well Done Martin! Jack Pepper and the Whitby Treasure is an exciting contemporary adventure story set in Whitby on the wild Yorkshire coast. Jack and his three [...]
Development Threat to the Battlefield
English Heritage (The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is a non-departmental public body. Today it is an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It has a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England and advises the relevant Secretary of State on policy and in individual cases [...]
TOWTON TAPESTRY
The Towton Tapestry is a project to record, in various forms of needlecraft, both the history of the Battle of Towton and the work to preserve and promote the battle that is carried out by the TBS, to find out more about the project please see their page on Facebook at Towton Tapestry Group
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