Towton battlefield society

About us

The TBS was founded in 1992.

We have three objectives:

1. To promote the permanent preservation of the battlefield of Towton and its environs as a site of historic interest and importance.
2. Promote education of the public in medieval history.
3. Promote research into medieval history, including the battle of Towton.

About us

Our Activities

We are an active society with many enthusiastic and knowledgeable members with a variety of activities going on throughout the year. 

We have a social meeting at the start of every month to which members and guests are welcome. Here members can gather, catch up with friends, have a cup of tea or coffee, hope to win a prize on the raffle, and listen to a guest speaker. Our monthly speakers are drawn from a wide range of professional and informed amateur historians, many of whom have been published. We also have experts on craft skills and different aspects of medieval life. We even, occasionally, venture outside the period of the mid-fifteenth century and have a talk on some other aspect of military or social history.

Our Tapestry Group are a small but dedicated group of members who are crafting a 2m² tapestry depicting moments from the battle.

We, through our volunteer guides, also provide one public guided walk per month around the battlefield trail. The walk is approximately 2.5-miles long and goes around part of the battlefield. During the walk, we explain the various accounts of what is thought to have happened at Towton, and discuss its context in late medieval English history whilst also giving the walkers a sense of life in the medieval period.

On this website, our members have access to an additional set of pages which provide access to archives of Society newsletters and our Herald magazine, a Forum for discussion and the opportunity to share articles within the Society for review and discussion.

Please have a look around our site, use the resources that we have been able to provide and get in touch if you have a query about the Society or a request for us to assist you. In the Society section there is information about the services that we can offer and some of the testimonials that we have received.

On this site you can join the Society, make a donation to our funds or contact us through the Contact Form. We look forward to hearing from you.