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A major international conference will be held at the University of Southampton between Friday 31 July and Monday 3 August 2015 to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt.

York City Council has agreed to the construction of 600 homes on the most likely site of the Battle of Fulford, 1066

In the members only area of the website, the Battlefields Trust has now published back issues oif its newsletter from September 1992 to January 2000.  An index is also available.

There is a new wind turbine threat to the Naseby battlefield. A planning application has been made to Daventry Council to erect a wind turbine at Oxendon.

The Battlefields Trust has initiated a project on the aerial bombardment of Britain during the First World War. Information on the project can be found here.

For the latest news from our friends at the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society please click here

After meeting Trust officers in October and following objections raised by Trust members, Northampton Borough Council appears to have started to modify its approach to the Northampton battlefield

The Battlefields Trust congratulates Richard Buckley and his team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester on their excellent work to discover the remains of Richard III and identify the remains as definitively his.

The Battlefields Trust is a charity. Our aim is to preserve, interpret and present battlefields as historical and educational resources. Over the last twenty years the Trust has fought against development on or around battlefields in the UK and overseas. It has installed information boards to improve presentation of nationally important battlefields to the public. In addition, the Trust has undertaken research to better understand battlefields and developed contacts with academics working in this area.

We are working on a programme of major projects covering battlefield preservation, presentation, interpretation, and development for educational purposes. We are seeking to recruit for several positions. Most of these are unpaid, and are likely to be of interest to someone seeking to undertake charitable work as part of a portfolio career or as a retirement activity. Currently we can only offer work experience or a showcase for expertise. Of course, if we are successful in our funding bids we may be in a position to offer project work in various aspect of battlefield heritage management.

PAID WORK - FUND RAISERS

We are looking for fund raisers willing to sell advertising space or our commercial services on a commission only basis or obtain local or national corporate sponsorship on a payment by results basis within the guidelines of the Institute of Fund-raising.

VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR BATTLEFIELD PROJECTS

We are planning three substantial battlefield projects covering the next few years. All of these will need volunteers to help to run the projects and promote them to communities.

WARS OF THE ROSES

This is a project to extend the investigations started at Bosworth to cover other Wars of the Roses battles and sieges (upward of 15 sites).

MAGNA CARTA TRAIL

We plan to set up a Magna Carta Trail covering as many as possible of the dozens of sites associated with the battles and sieges of the C13th wars that led to the signing of Magna Carta and secured it within English government.

GREAT WAR BATTLEFIELDS OF BRITAIN – THE FIRST BLITZ

The Centenary of the Great War is an opportunity to document, preserve and interpret the heritage of the world's first strategic aerial bombing campaign, the German air war against Britain 1915-18.

If you want to help, contact the Battlefields Trust via the contact us page on www.battlefieldstrust.com

Professor Ian D. Rotherham and colleagues are organising a major event on the theme of ‘military heritage of Britain’s moors, heaths, bogs and fens.

The conference will bring together speakers and poster presentations from a range of disciplines: military history, landscape history, environmental conservation, ecology, history, heritage,
tourism, archaeology, and geography.

The conference organisers wish to invite submissions of oral and poster presentations on any of the themes. They are happy to receive papers relating to specific small case study areas, major conflicts or different branches of the military including home defence, aviation, etc, and papers on wider landscape
or heritage issues.

The debate about the location of the battle of Hastings.

1st to the 31st May 2013

Animals in the Armed Forces Exhibition organised by the Fusilier Museum London.

Twice-monthly Sunday walks around the Battlefield of Stamford Bridge start on Sunday 5th May

Sunday 26th May 2013

Dr Peter Burley and Mike Elliott will be leading a walk around Medieval St Albans and following the course of the crucial 1st Battle of St Albans.

Monday 3rd June 2013

Talk by Major Steve Leavis from the Defence Animal Training Centre. 

Saturday 8th June 2013

Simon Marsh is leading a walk around the site of the first major battle of the English Civil War.

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June 2013

A weekend of re-enactment events and talks at Naseby Village Hall and playing fields.

Saturday June 29th 2013

On Boudica's Trail: Conference

A one‐day conference on recent work at Mancetter, with historical and military context.

Sunday 30th June 2013

For anyone who wants to have Sunday Lunch meet in the Brasenose Arms pub, in Cropredy, at 12.00, (OX17 1PW). The walk itself will start at 13.00 from outside the pub.

Thursday 4th July 2013

On the first Thursday of each month from April to October 2013, the Captain Christie Crawfurd English Civil War Collection, one of the finest collections of contemporary Civil war paintings in the country, can be viewed at St Edwards Hall, Stow-on-the-Wold, (post code GL54 1AF), between 10am and 2.30pm.

The cost is £3 for adults, free for children.
 

Sunday 7th July 2013

In 1470 Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, and Lord William Berkeley took advantage of the chaos caused by the Wars of the Roses to assemble hundreds of their followers and settle the issue of a disputed inheritance with a pitched battle.

13th to 28th July 2013

The annual celebration of archaeology will take place from 13-28 July with over 1000 events across the UK.

The Festival kicks off the summer holidays with plenty of ways to get hands-on with history. Choose from excavation open days, behind-the-scenes tours and workshops, guided walks, talks and finds identifications, family fun days, and much more.

Sunday 14th July 2013

A guided walk around the Hampshire site of Sir William Waller’s victory over the Royalists under Forth and Hopton.

Sunday 14th July 2013

Ray Wilkinson is leading a walk around two of Kent's most important battlefields; Maidstone 1648 where Fairfax won a crucial victory over the Royalists and the Medway, the possible site of one of the most significant battles in British history when the invading Roman Legions defeated the Britons under Caratacus.

Tuesday 16th July 2013

The 500th anniversary of Flodden is being marked by two lectures by George Goodwin and Clive Hallam-Baker.

Sunday 11th August 2013

John Hamill will be leading a walk over the site of Simon de Montfort’s crucial victory which lead to the establishment of England’s first Parliament.