Episode 355 - Rethinking the Battle of Wakefield with Dr David Grummitt
Talking Tudors · Aug 3, 2026 · 48:41
Talking Tudors · Aug 3, 2026 · 48:41
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Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr David Grummitt about the December 1460 events commonly called the Battle of Wakefield. Dr Grummitt argues the episode was a small ambush and murder of Richard, Duke of York and his son rather than a large pitched battle, and explains the primary evidence behind this interpretation.
The episode also covers the immediate Lancastrian response, the march to the Palm Sunday battles of 1461, and how later Tudor chroniclers and historians transformed these events into a more dramatic mythology.
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