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For you lovers of history, especially military history, especially medieval military history, especially British medieval military history, this article is for you<\/a>.\u00a0 A very well done, well written article on the archaeological digs at the site of the battle of Towton, one of the many clashes during the conflict history knows as the War of the Roses.\u00a0 As always, watch for words like \u2018think\u2019, \u2018believe\u2019, \u2018suggests\u2019, as in \u2018we believe\u2019, or \u2018we think\u2019, rather than we know.\u00a0 Even with all of our scientific advances, we can still only guess at many things that happened in years gone by.\u00a0 Still, it does do a good job at helping to advance the reality that many of our notions of life in the pre-modern world, especially that period known as the Middle Ages, are perhaps less accurate than we might believe. <\/p>\n

The money quote from the article is this:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this distance any theories are likely to remain plausible rather than proven.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s true for more of history than we might care to admit.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it shows the art involved in reconstructing what we think might have happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For you lovers of history, especially military history, especially medieval military history, especially British medieval military history, this article is for you.\u00a0 A very well done, well written article on the archaeological digs at the site of the battle of Towton, one of the many clashes during the conflict history knows as the War of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Battle of Towton revisited<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For you lovers of history, especially military history, especially medieval military history, especially British medieval military history, this article\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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