The Battlefields Trust’s Wars of the Roses Memorial Database Project

This article examines how the Wars of the Roses have been remembered through memorials and presents the Battlefields Trust’s Wars of the Roses Memorial Database Project, launched in 2023. The open-access, crowd-sourced database maps monuments, plaques, battlefield markers and local commemorations linked to the conflicts. David Grummitt shows that remembrance began during the wars themselves and shaped identity over time. The project values memorials as expressions of communal memory, even when they reflect myth or later reinterpretation...