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Lancaster Castle and Northern English History

The View from the Stronghold

Stephen Pumfrey, Marianne Blaauboer, Fiona Edmonds, Christopher Donaldson, Corinna Peniston-Bird, Sam Riches, Jonathan Masters, Jacob O'Neill, Rianna Price, Polina Ignatova, Jenni Hyde, and Lawrence Robinson

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  • The Roman coastal fort and its relationship to the northern frontier
  • The Norman Castle: its role in Anglo-Scottish warfare and the emergence of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • The Castle’s role as a prison for the Lancashire Witches, in the context of post-Reformation history
  • The role as a debtors’ prison in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and changes in prison organisation
  • The First and Second World Wars
  • The importance of the castle to the region’s heritage
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Lancaster University
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Stephen Pumfrey
Marianne Blaauboer
Fiona Edmonds
Christopher Donaldson
Corinna Peniston-Bird
Sam Riches
Jonathan Masters
Jacob O'Neill
Rianna Price
Polina Ignatova
Jenni Hyde
Lawrence Robinson
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