Castle book out now!

The Museum’s latest book – Thornbury Castle Revisited – by Tony Cherry (in association with Meg Wise) – has just been launched in the Tudor Hall at Thornbury Castle.  We volunteers here at the Museum have been snapping up copies fast.

The museum first produced a book about the castle in 2013. It very quickly sold out.  Now, a revised book has been produced.

New stories have come to light, more beheadings have been discovered and unpublished pictures have been revealed, all of which appear in the new book.

Thornbury Castle was built by Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham.

Stafford led an extraordinary life.

At the age of six, he was a fugitive hunted by King Richard III (who had killed his father). At the age of 12 he was married and, at the age of 20, he was living at the manor house in Thornbury. At the age of 32, he was building his new castle and, at the age of 43, he was dead.

So many good stories in this book…

The book is now on sale in the museum for £20 – buy your copies now!  (They make great birthday and Christmas presents…)