Jon Cooper
Thursday 23rd October at 7:30pm
Queen Margaret Hall, 53 Blackness Road, Linlithgow EH49 7JA
As an introduction to the Trust’s commemoration of the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge on 4th September 1526 in its 500th anniversary year, this season’s first talk is by Jon Cooper, military historian, battlefield archaeologist, and author of The Heart And The Rose – the book about the battle.
Jon will take a historical look at events leading up to the battle, and talk about the battle itself, fought by the Earl of Lennox against the Earls of Angus and Arran.