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Danielle Burton

27/09/2021

We have recently been in contact with Danielle Burton, who has for the last seven years been researching the life of Anthony Woodville, who was executed at Pontefract Castle on 25th June 1483, with the hope of publishing a book in the near future. If you would like to follow her blog, the link is here; https://voyagerofhistory.wordpress.com/category/fifteenth-century/

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2:00 PM - The Bloodiest Battle on English Soil?
The Bloodiest Battle on English Soil?
30 Nov
30/11/2025    
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Pontefract Castle Vistor Centre
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On a wintry Palm Sunday in 1461, two great armies faced each other across Towton Vale with the future of the English throne at stake. [...]
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