Monday 13th May 2024, 8pm.
Battlefields Trust Online Lecture: Aristocratic Amazons in Arms: the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1907-1918

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CANCELLATION

Sunday 19th May 2024. The visit to RAF Riccall and Yorkshire Air Museum Elvington has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to injury.

Sunday 19th May 2024, 10am
Wing Commander (Retd) Jeff Metcalfe QVRM AE will lead a walk around the former RAF Riccall, operational between 1942 and 1945 training pilots to fly heavy bombers
Optional afternoon visit to YAM Elvington

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25 April 1464. Battle of Hedgeley Moor

Yorkists led by John Neville, Lord Montagu, defeat a Lancastrian force under Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. A ‘Percy Cross’ stands as a memorial to Sir Ralph Percy, younger son of the 2nd Earl of Northumberland, who was killed here

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 8pm

Battlefields Trust Online Lecture:
Unholy alliance: Cadwallon and Penda vs Northumbria.

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Saturday 25th May 2024, 2.30pm
Talk - Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner

Historical artist Graham Turner will be speaking about his work, and the inspiration behind his latest publication on the Wars of the Roses.

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Sunday 19th May 2024, 2pm.
First battle of St Albans 1455

Join Peter Burley and Mike Elliott for a walk across the battlefield that saw the opening engagement of what was to become the Wars of the Roses.

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Battle of Whalley. 21 April 1643.
Colonel Richard Shuttleworth ambushes the Earl of Derby's royalists at Read Bridge, who are three times his number. Attacked at such close quarters, the royalists (comprising of Clubmen) break and fall back to Whalley. It is a decisive defeat.

Sunday 12th May 2024,1pm.
Battle of Islip 1645

Join Gregg Archer for a walk to explore the battle of Islip bridge, one of the actions that form part of Lt Gen Oliver Cromwell's raid around Oxford in Spring 1645.

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Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 2024
Battle of Lewes 1264 Festival

A re-enactment of the Battle of Lewes (1264) in the town with 150 re-enactors expected. Each morning begins with the re-enactors processing down the High Street to the Convent Field, site of the events.

Friday 10th May 2024, 2pm.

Battle of Lewes 1264

Join John Freeman for a walk around the battlefield of Lewes, a key engagement of the Second Barons' War

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Sunday 19th May 2024, 10am.

Visit to RAF Riccall and Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington.

NB: Advance Booking Essential

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Wednesday 17th April 2024, 8pm
Battlefields Trust Online Lecture: Military medicine through the ages.

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A joy to be a small part of this representing the Battlefields Trust, and surveying a small part of the battlefield. Modbury is a recent entry to the Trust's 'Battlefield Hub' (info collated by Simon Marsh) so you can find more info here: battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centr…

One of the two Towton groups braving the gale for a battlefield walk yesterday afternoon. Part of the Battlefields Trust Conference weekend. Many thanks to our guides Chris and Penny from Towton Battlefield Society