David Grummitt
@davidgrummitt.bsky.social
Historian of the late Middle Ages (and of the history of warfare more generally), academic and magazine editor. Very good with children and cats, not too shabby in the kitchen.
Today I gave a paper, which seemed well received, on the Franco-Burgundian accounts of the Battle of Towton at the Fifteenth Century Conference in Durham. The cathedral is looking magnificent in the late afternoon sunshine …
September 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Today I gave a paper, which seemed well received, on the Franco-Burgundian accounts of the Battle of Towton at the Fifteenth Century Conference in Durham. The cathedral is looking magnificent in the late afternoon sunshine …
Look what arrived today. Really pleased to see it in print (always a long road with academic presses) but Oxford University Press have done a fine job.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Look what arrived today. Really pleased to see it in print (always a long road with academic presses) but Oxford University Press have done a fine job.
Finished the last chapter of my forthcoming book on the battles of the Wars of the Roses 1455-1461 ...
May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Finished the last chapter of my forthcoming book on the battles of the Wars of the Roses 1455-1461 ...
One of those days at the TNA where you don’t find much that rolls back the frontiers of historical knowledge … oh well, there are worse things to be doing!
January 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of those days at the TNA where you don’t find much that rolls back the frontiers of historical knowledge … oh well, there are worse things to be doing!
Been writing about Mortimer’s Cross this week. We don’t know exactly where it was fought, but we can be pretty certain it was fought on 3 February and Edward saw the parhelion the day before at Hereford.
January 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Been writing about Mortimer’s Cross this week. We don’t know exactly where it was fought, but we can be pretty certain it was fought on 3 February and Edward saw the parhelion the day before at Hereford.
I will be watching the programme tonight but really this is the biggest historical non-story of recent years. It’s not even a new discovery!
December 3, 2024 at 8:17 AM
I will be watching the programme tonight but really this is the biggest historical non-story of recent years. It’s not even a new discovery!