Video: War Walks: Naseby (1997)

Click above to watch the late Professor Richard Holmes tell the story of the Battle of Naseby (1645).

The half-hour programme formed part of the second series of Holmes' excellent War Walks (1997).

Events this weekend

Valence House, Dagenham. Photo: © Copyright Adrian Cable (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Post-holiday blues already kicking-in? Here are some interesting 17th century-related events all happening this weekend:

• Exhibition: Hidden - An Unseen Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (National Portrait Gallery, London - Sat & Sun)
• Exhibition: Fanshawe Women of the English Civil War (Valence House, Dagenham - Sat & Sun)
• Tour: Battle of Naseby 1645 (Naseby, Warks, - Sun)
• Tour: Battle of Worcester 1651 (Worcester - Sun).

See Events for visiting arrangements, start times etc. and loads more walks, talks and re-enactments all happening this year.

Wind turbines to blight Naseby landscape

They don't look happy either. Photo: Dirk Ingo Franke (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A wind farm will be built near Naseby battlefield, despite fierce opposition.

Energy company Eon won their appeal to erect six 400ft turbines on the Kelmarsh Estate after local residents, Daventry Council, English Heritage and the Battlefield Trust had all warned that views of the battlefield site will be severely compromised ...

Naseby vistor centre wins approval

The Naseby Battlefield Memorial

A permanent education centre near to the site of the Battle of Naseby has come a step closer, after plans to build a visitor centre were approved ...