Yorkshire Yorkshire ReporterAPRIL 2014 OUT MONTHLY OUT MONTHLY Yorkshire ReporterMARCH 2014 Yorkshire OUT MONTHLY Choose Your Spot ■ Leeds Town Hall. ■ Harewood House. Image © JD554 FEB 2014 UT MONTHLY Reporter LEEDS EDITIONO FREE ReporterNOV 2013 Two Local Restaurant reviews inside JAKE Leeds The Olive Tree & Nawaz PAGES 38-39 Grand FIGHTS ACROSS LEEDS AND WEST YORKSHIRE Départ ■ Harrogate. Blooming spectator zones revealed Lovely! BACK ■ Image © SWPix By Sally Thurrell “We have a team of 15 people who are out Barwick in Elmet and Garforth are every Wednesday putting the effort in, come rain, wind, shine, they’re out there all year celebrating after flying the flag for Leeds at Cash for Kids is the official charity of round.” the 2013 Britain in Bloom awards. Radio Aire & Magic 828. 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Image © Linzi Davies APRIL 2014 One of the crucial things in discovering what happened and helmets to domestic items, can be identified in museum Monthly Features during a battle is the archaeology and artefacts found on a collections or from sculpture, art and manuscript illuminations APRIL 2014 battlefield. Towton has proved to be one of the most important of the period. battlefield sites in regards to finds. The soil quality and My original oil painting of Towton is now part of a private composition makes it a perfect material in which to preserve collection, but prints and cards are available, including an edition artefacts. The heavy snow and blizzard conditions at the time reproduced on canvas. My fascination with Towton continues, of the battle have also ensured that there was a lot to be found. and I have revisited the battle several times and created other Because of the weather conditions many objects were buried in Saints in Saxton village where he was buried with his war horse. Contrastingly, the paintings of this pivotal day in our history. I was also involved in APRIL 2014 the snow and trampled into the ground unseen. The sheer amount Yorkist army lost only one noble at the battle– Horne. a documentary about Towton filmed a few years ago, in which I Email: [email protected] of arrow heads found and the position they were in helped to With the Yorkists victorious, and many of Henry’s supporters dead, Henry VI was able to wear both my hats; the artist talking about painting establish where the volley of arrow fire was at the beginning of our past, and the jouster, fled the country with his wife and son, and Edward IV took the throne of England. the battle and where the two armies were positioned initially. showing what it was like to Edward then ruled for nine years before Henry was briefly reinstated as King in ■ Image © Graham Turner As well as the artefacts found at Towton, the tremendous loss of wear and ride in armour. LOCAL October 1470 for 6 months. Warwick and Edward’s brother George had formed a 28 human life has also left its mark. Several mass graves have been secret alliance with Margaret of Anjou and effectively ruled in Henrys name during I will be exhibiting some Email: [email protected] found, as the victims were hurriedly buried following the battle. this short time until Warwick overreached himself by declaring war on Burgundy, of my work at the Towton A mass grave was uncovered in the 1990’s during extension of thus giving them a reason to support Edward in retaking his throne by force. Commemoration event on Towton Hall. The skeletons all had numerous head wounds and The Plantagenet family ruled England until the Tudor victory over Richard III at April 13th, and will be happy The Battle Of Towton forensics dated them to the time of the battle. Scientific study also 26 LOCAL Bosworth in 1485 during the 3rd Wars of the Roses. to discuss my work and sign suggests that they were executed, as there were no injuries to the prints. I will be unveiling a 36 LOCAL Email: [email protected] JAN 2014 arms which would have been the case had the men been able to new canvas print reproduced A Brief Overview of Weapons at Towton defend themselves. This discovery gives further credence to the from my Towton painting, reports that the battle was fought with no mercy- there would be a much larger size than Local Sculptor Exhibition no hostages or ransoms at Towton. By Gareth Whitehead - Yorkshire Reporter’s Local Historian previously available that AUG/SEPT 2013 really shows the detail of the Local News North set to lose out in When most people think of medieval battlefields they think of armies fully original. covered in plate armour with the best swords and shields. But this was in reality See www.studio88.co.uk By Linzi Davies only available to a very small percentage of the soldiers. Most of the soldiers were for more information about poor men and therefore could not afford armour, only a quilted jacket and a bill. Graham and his work, The Wars of the Roses is something that just about everyone in the UK is This is a long staff type weapon derived from the agricultural bill hook. The bill Email: [email protected] original paintings plus prints health funding allocations aware of from Britain’s’ colourful and varied past. But what was it all about? consists of a hooked chopping blade with several pointed projections. The cutting and cards. What caused this period of civil war and what was the legacy that was left blade curves forwards to form a hook, most would have had a spike straight off the Fears that Yorkshire stands to be disadvantaged by the re- that there will be no overall gain in funding across the board with bad as we feared over the summer, they are still not good news behind? Here, the Yorkshire Reporter looks at the largest battle in our region – top like a spear.