peterw Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 I was only two years old at the time, but I remember my father taking me to watch the battle. Can’t remember the actual site though, but if it’s really important I’ll ask him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetcheeks Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 If anyone is interested, could I recommend a book "Yorkshire Battlefields" by Graham Bell. Published by Wharncliffe Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley. ISBN 1-903425-12-3. The book contains details of major battles within Yorkshire, including Brunanburh, and has Towton, Boroughbridge, Stamfordbridge and Wakefield among other detailed conflicts. It is a super read and is highly recommended to anyone interested in our rather gruesome history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aelfheah Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 If anyone is interested, could I recommend a book "Yorkshire Battlefields" by Graham Bell. Published by Wharncliffe Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley. ISBN 1-903425-12-3. The book contains details of major battles within Yorkshire, including Brunanburh, and has Towton, Boroughbridge, Stamfordbridge and Wakefield among other detailed conflicts. It is a super read and is highly recommended to anyone interested in our rather gruesome history. I actually picked that book up in Surrey street library, but got distracted, I shall rent it out. Yorkshire can 'boast' some particularly violent battles- Towton and Stamford Bridge especially were indeed horrific and merciless slaughters. I love history, but sadly many people think it irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk014b7161 Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 history was my favourite subject at school i still like history to this day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aelfheah Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 history was my favourite subject at school i still like history to this day I love it, my girlfriend thinks I'm kinky coz I surf the net, not for porn, but for history forums and sites! ps. Like the Lenny "the Guv'nor" Maclean avatar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falls Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I actually picked that book up in Surrey street library, but got distracted, I shall rent it out. Yorkshire can 'boast' some particularly violent battles- Towton and Stamford Bridge especially were indeed horrific and merciless slaughters. I love history, but sadly many people think it irrelevant. What about Marston Moor in the Civil War. That was a bloody as they come and was really when Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces began to function as a real army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aelfheah Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 What about Marston Moor in the Civil War. That was a bloody as they come and was really when Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces began to function as a real army. Yes, Newcastle's royalist Whitecoats fought a futile but bloody last stand, slaughtered to a man. Surrounded by roundhead cavalry, muskets and infantry late in the battle, they stubbornly fought on, even wounded they still grabbed for anything to attack their foes with. "God made them stubble to our swords" said Cromwell of the royalist cavalry in the battle's slaughter afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Is anyone else familiar with the Battle of Brunanburh in 937ad, fought (many historian's site-theories differ) on Brinsworth ridge- which was sited along the northern-most border between Anglo-Saxon England and the 'Danelaw'. Templeborough is reputedly the site of the allied camp on the eve before battle. Kings had often been mentioned in chronicles having submitted to one another at 'Dore' and Bakewell. The redoubtable grandson of King Alfred- King Athelstan- marched a huge(for that era) army of c.18,000 Mercian/Wessex troops north to check the ravaging of a fearsome coalition of c.18,000 - Scots(under King Constantine); British Strathclyde(under King Owain); Irish Norse(under Olaf Gothfrithsson) & Norsemen from York[Jorvik] under Olaf Sihtricsson. They were intending to invade southwards and conquer Mercia, E.Anglia & Wessex. It was apparently a brutal all-day struggle, but the 'English' shieldwall on the ridge held firm late into the day, and a counter-attack slaughtered huge numbers of the allies as they broke. Athelstan's crushing victory was celebrated in poems. Thus the lesson for today is over... found this http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/brun_me.html i like local history and found your post reall interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aelfheah Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Thanks for that, depoix. Seems we do after all have a fanbase of history on here? Should we form a Sheffieldforum history group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falls Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Seems we do after all have a fanbase of history on here? Should we form a Sheffieldforum history group? Hi, If you are thinking of separating the "History" group from the "Missing Persons Bureau" part, Tony in Admin. is the person to call. Falls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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