Today, March 29th, should be a significant and melancholy date in the English calendar, known and marked by all schoolchildren. For on Palm Sunday, March 29th 1461, as church bells rang out across the ...

THE soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty ...

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The Battle of Towton in 1461 has long held the distinction of being the largest and bloodiest battle on English soil. A decisive moment in the Wars of the Roses, it saw the Yorkist Edward IV defeat ...

James Clark receives funding from UK Research Councils. A Battle of the Somme on British soil? It happened on Palm Sunday, 1461: a day of fierce fighting in the mud that felled a generation, leaving a ...

'These Skeletons Reveal Horrific Injuries From The Battle of Towton' The Battle of Towton in 1461 has long held the distinction of being the largest and bloodiest battle on English soil. A decisive ...

Even by the standards of tumult that had become customary over the previous decade, the winter of 1460-61 was a disturbed and dangerous time. England was in a state of civil war, fought between ...

It was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil and changed the course of history. But a remarkable archaeological discovery means the Battle of Towton on March 29, 1461, will go down in ...

IT HAS been described as the bloodiest and largest battle ever fought on British soil – and its legacy remains more than 500 years on. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

A 2,000-year-old Iron Age gold bracelet found in a field in North Yorkshire will stay in the county after a public appeal raised the cash needed. The Yorkshire Museum appealed for donations to buy the ...