David Grummitt
@davidgrummitt.bsky.social
Historian of the late Middle Ages (and of the history of warfare more generally), academic and magazine editor. Very good with children and cats, not too shabby in the kitchen.
I’m delighted to announce this, a free-to-attend event in Wakefield on 21 March to discuss the Palm Sunday Campaign 1461 , new interpretations and old. www.battlefieldstrust.com/event.asp?Ev...
The Battlefields Trust - Events - The Battlefields Trust
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Today I gave a paper, which seemed well received, on the Franco-Burgundian accounts of the Battle of Towton at the Fifteenth Century Conference in Durham. The cathedral is looking magnificent in the late afternoon sunshine …
Look what arrived today. Really pleased to see it in print (always a long road with academic presses) but Oxford University Press have done a fine job.
Just written this blog piece for Historic England to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Battlefield Register. heritagecalling.com/2025/06/12/h...
Exploring the Myths of the Wars of the Roses Battlefields
Discover the myths and realities of England's historic battlefields in the Wars of the Roses as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of their register.
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To mark the upcoming issue of the Ricardian Bulletin, Alec Marsh, Philippa Langley and I discuss new evidence from the Missing Princes Project and how things may have been different if Richard III had won the Battle of Bosworth …. open.spotify.com/episode/6049...
Philippa Langley on finding the Princes in the Tower, and Bosworth with David Grummitt
The Ricardian Podcast · Episode
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Finished the last chapter of my forthcoming book on the battles of the Wars of the Roses 1455-1461 ...
Very pleased to be involved in this with the Battlefields Trust. We are pleased to announce that the Wars of the Roses Memorial Database is now live at www.battlefieldstrust.com/wotrmemorial/ to coincide with the anniversary of the battle of Towton (1461).
The Battlefields Trust - Wars of the Roses Memorials - The Battlefields Trust
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How deeply depressing: another ‘popular’ book on the Wars of the Roses that merely repeats old myths and ignores any recent research on the subject. 1 star!
Turned my attention to the Second Battle of St Albans, 17 February 1461. Colonel Alfred Burne’s ‘Inherent Military (Im)Probability’ at its very best (with a little bit of faux feminine wiles put in for good measure!)
One of those days at the TNA where you don’t find much that rolls back the frontiers of historical knowledge … oh well, there are worse things to be doing!
Been writing about Mortimer’s Cross this week. We don’t know exactly where it was fought, but we can be pretty certain it was fought on 3 February and Edward saw the parhelion the day before at Hereford.
Reading battle history of the Wars of the Roses is … interesting. There’s a lot of imagination presented as fact!
New research blog on the ‘discovery’ of the chain that once belonged to Edward V in the 1522 will of Dame Margaret Capell. riiiresearch.blogspot.com?m=1
Richard III Society Research
A blog run by the Richard III Society's Research Committee to share research into the life and times of Richard III
riiiresearch.blogspot.com
I’m reminded today would have been Henry VI’s birthday. I wrote a book about him … www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0415...
Henry Vi (Routledge Historical Biographies): Amazon.co.uk: Grummitt, David: 9780415639934: Books
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I am delighted to share the fabulous line up of speakers for the Richard III Society's 2025 Schools' Conference - open to any secondary school teaching the Wars of the Roses at A Level.
I will be watching the programme tonight but really this is the biggest historical non-story of recent years. It’s not even a new discovery!
I have written a post for the Richard III Society’s research blog on Richard and Calais, England’s only remaining continental possession in the 15th century. It illustrates the type of challenge Richard faced in consolidating his rule. riiiresearch.blogspot.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
Richard III Society Research
A blog run by the Richard III Society's Research Committee to share research into the life and times of Richard III
riiiresearch.blogspot.com
I’ll be speaking this coming Friday (29 November) at the Institute of Historical Research’s Late Medieval Seminar on how the battles of the Wars of the Roses have been memorialized. It’s been ten years since I last spoke there! www.history.ac.uk/events/sites...
Sites of Memory and Acts of Remembrance: Memorializing the Wars of the Roses
history.ac.uk
