This web-site is pleased to announce a new history research project [March 2005] that will begin to reveal over the next two years the real sites of some historic battles such as Newark and Bosworth and show how the rich and famous have falsified English history to suit their own purposes.
To start this process we introduce a few letters and will post any replies we receive as we get them.
It is a Criminal Offence
to obtain money by false deception. If that is the case and it is true that
‘the only point of consensus [on the battle] is that the battlefield was
not where the [visitor] centre stands, on Ambion Hill’. [£1
million to find the Real Bosworth battlefield Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage
correspondent in 21/01/05 edition of ‘The
Guardian’] then how come Leicestershire county council are taking
money from members of the public to visit the site of the Battle of Bosworth?
Give it back we say. Oh and they won’t find it where they’re now
looking!
RPM Publications
BCM Box 3328
London WC1N 3XX
March 8th 2005
Tony Pollard
GUARD
The Gregory Building
Lilybank Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Reference – BBC series ‘Two Men in a Trench’
Dear Mr Pollard
I wonder if you could spare a few minutes to read my letter and to answer a number of short questions on the BBC series ‘Two Men in a Trench’.
I do so after watching the programme’s and being somewhat surprised at what appeared to be a distinct lack of evidence to support various claims concerning the locations of various battle’s.
1. I wonder if you could provide me with a list of what you would class as acceptable evidence in a court of law supportive of the claims made for the site locations.
2. Can you clarify all sources of funding for the ‘Two Men in a Trench’ project?
3. Are the battlefield sites you examined in the same category as the fight known as Maserfield in 641-642 AD? [i.e has been proven to have no historical significance after a challenge by Barrett’s Housing showed this to be the case – as you will be aware the site is now a Barratt’s Housing estate. The relevant Tourist Board has now stopped presenting Maserfield as a site of historical significance]
4. Did you use members of the N.C.M.D throughout the two men in a trench series?
Many thanks
Mark Metcalf – NUJ member and freelance journalist
No reply received -
in addition to no reply from tony pollard it also appears that the BBC
does not want to discuss the Two Men in a Trench Series because if you go
the BBC web-site readers will find there are no links which can be
highlighted to find out more. Instead it simply says 'the series has now
finished.' It is also not possible to purchase copies from the BBC of the
series.
March 8th 2005
John Ritblat Gallery
British Library
St Pancras
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Reference – Magna Carta
Dear Sir/Madam
This may seem a strange question, but can you tell me whether Magna Carta has ever been the subject of carbon dating testing and if the answer is no then how is it possible to be certain that it was written in the 13th century?
Many thanks
In a letter from Claire
Breay, curator of Medieval Historical Manuscripts,
Charters and Seals, dated April 7th she said 'I am not aware that carbon
dating test has been performed on any' of 'the four surviving original
copies of Magna Carta.'[two in British Library, one in Salisbury Cathedral
and one in Lincoln Cathedral]
The style of the handwriting is a good indicator of the date of the
documents. Handwriting underwant continuous changes in style throughout
the medieval period, and the hands of the four originals are all
consistent with the 1215 date. In addition, the formulae and textual
structure of the charter are consistent with this date.
The Lincoln and Salisbury copies of the charter have been kept
continuously in these cities since they were sent there in 1215 and one of
the British Library copies [not in display] bears the remains of the Great
Seal of King John which would originally have been appended to all the
many copies of the charter which were distributed throughout the kingdom.
The combination of all these factors allows us to be confident that the
surviving documents were written in the thirteenth century.
Would testing this Norman
wall at Whittington Castle prove it was built in
the 10th century? Strange as 'history' tells us they didn't arrive until
the 11th!
Dear Mark,
I have contacted our team here that deals with the Battlefield Register,
and they have advised me to point you in the direction of the
Battlefields Trust as our team don't have the information you require.
The Battlefield Trust should have more information that may be of
interest to you. They have an excellent website,
http://www.battlefieldstrust.com and a resource centre with lots of
information.
I hope this helps and I am sorry I can't answer your question.
Many thanks.
Lisa.
-----Original Message-----
From: revopermin@ukonline.co.uk [mailto:revopermin@ukonline.co.uk] Sent:
22 March 2005 16:40
To: HAMPTON, Lisa
Subject: the register of historic battlefields
From: Mark Metcalf, NUJ member and freelance journalist
To: Lisa Hampton
English Heritage
lisa.hampton@english-heritage.org.uk
Reference - The Register of Historic Battlefields
Dear Lisa Hampton,
I was recently interested to read English Heritage's leaflet on 'The Register
of Historic Battlefields' dated June 1995, a copy of which I received in the
post from 23 Savile Row in London.
I have recently had the pleasure of visiting a number of the sites listed and
obtaining further information on the battlefield sites. I am in the
process of writing an article on a number of them and would be grateful if
you could answer just one question.
This is as follows:-
Is it possible for English Heritage to provide me with a copy of the first
written references to each of the battle's listed?
Many thanks,
Mark Metcalf