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Battle of Towton | Schoolshistory.org.uk

The Battle of Towton was fought on 29th March 1461. A Yorkist victory, Towton remains the bloodiest battle on English soil with 28000 casualties.

I’ve just made some alterations to this page on England’s bloodiest Battle. Towton will be the theme of my Masters dissertation so plenty of depth to it, with more to come. 

My research will be on the social consequences of the Battle, rather than the fighting itself. With a large proportion of the Lancastrian nobility killed in the battle, or executed, there was a huge shift in landownership and the related management of large tracts of land. What was the impact of this and how did people react to their newly appointed overlords?

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