Sources

This page lists all of the sources that were used while researching the historical information presented on this website.


Pontefract Castle

Pontefract Printed Sources

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  • Holmes, Richard: Pontefract: Its Name, Its Lords, And Its Castle. A Concise History (1878)
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  • Lorenzo, Radgett: Chronicles of Old Pontefract (1905)
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  • Ridgeway Claire: On This Day in Tudor History (2015)
  • Roberts, Ian and Downes, Ian: Pontefract Castle – The Key to the North (2013)
  • Robertson Sir Charles Grant: Select Statutes, Cases and Documents to Illustrate English Constitutional History 1660-1832 (1904)
  • Rose, Sarah: emails from Department of History, Lancaster University (2020)
  • Russell, Gareth: Young, Damned and Fair – The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard (2017)
  • Sala George Augustus: Sala’s Journal (1892)
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  • Sheffield Daily Telegraph: 16th July 1928, 17th July 1890, 13th May 1913
  • Sheffield Independent: 10th September 1887
  • Sinclair Thomas: Caithness events: a discussion of Captain Kennedy’s historical narrative, and an account of the Broynach Earls (1894)
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  • The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract Volume I (1899, digital print 2013)
  • The Chemist and Druggist (1897); 1905
  • The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply and Sanitary Improvement (28th June 1892)
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  • Victoria Daily Times: 15th April 1896
  • Wakefield Advertiser and Gazette: 3rd July 1901
  • Wakefield Free Press: 8th February 1890
  • Wakefield and West Riding Herald: 23rd June 1877, 5th April 1913
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  • Warner, Kathryn: Richard II – A True King’s Fall (2017)
  • Warner, Kathryn: Following in the Footsteps of Edward II (2019)
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  • Whitridge, Arnold: The Trent Affair, 1861 (History Today June 1954)
  • Wightman, Wilfred Eric: The Lacy family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194 (1966)
  • Williams, Barrie: Richard III and Pontefract (Ricardian September 1984)
  • Yorkshire Evening Post: 3rd August 1950
  • Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer: 13th May 1899, 17th April 1939, 6th February 1941, 24th August 1942, 31st March 1951, 17th December 1955
  • York Herald: 7th September 1889

Pontefract Website Sources


Sandal Castle Sources

Sandal Printed Sources

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  • Ambler Sophie Therese: The Song of Simon de Montfort: England’s First Revolutionary (2020)
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  • Ashdown-Hill John: The Mythology Of The ‘Princes In The Tower’ (2020)
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  • Clark, K. L.: The Nevills of Middleham (2017)
  • Dockray, Keith and Knowles Richard: The Battle of Wakefield (2010)
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  • Goodwin, George: Fatal Colours (2011)
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  • Haigh, Philip A,: Wakefield to Towton (2002)
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  • Jones, Dan: The Hollow Crown (2014)
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  • Lewis, Matthew: Richard III Loyalty Binds Me (2018)
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  • Leeds Times:18th June 1887
  • Leeds Mercury: 23rd June 1911
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  • Penn, Thomas: The Brothers York (2019)
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  • Seward, Desmond: The Last White Rose (2010)
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  • Skidmore, Chris: Richard III (2017)
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  • Spencer Charles: The White Ship (2020)
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  • Weir, Alison: Elisabeth of York (2014)
  • Weir, Alison: Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (2014)

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