Helen Cox, the author of the forthcoming new evaluation of the Battle of Wakefield (see here), let us know that a half-hour programme on the Battle of Towton has just been broadcast on BBC 1, as part of a series called ‘A History of the World’. Helen and a number of other Towton Battlefield Society/Frei Compagnie re-enactors feature in this programme.
She also informed us that the programme would be available on the BBC iPlayer (here). We were so thrilled to think that now we would also be able to watch programmes like this, but alas the BBC iPlayer for TV is available to the UK only. Why this discrimination?
Tomorrow, 20 May, BBC2 will broadcast in its ‘History Cold Case’ series a programme on the skeleton of a man found at Stirling Castle who died after a jolly joust. That would also be interesting, if only we could watch it!
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