People and Stories

Select a story from the list below:

• Thomas Holden
• The Lancaster Martyrs
• The Lancashire Witch trials of 1612
• George and Elizabeth Youngson
• George Lyon - The Up Holland Highwayman
• Stephen Cropper: A Debtor's Story
• Murder Trials
• Guides' Histories

Guides' Histories

Specialist histories written by the people who know the castle best- the staff

• 'Henry Hopwood: The Convict Who Made Good' by Peter Norris BA
• 'Lunacy and Lancaster Castle' by Adam Newton MA MSc
• 'The Pendle Witches' by Christine Goodier MA
• 'Other Witch Stories' by Melvyn Dod
• 'True Patriots All'- Convict Transportation from Lancashire by Eric R. Wilkinson MA
• 'Lancaster and the Assizes 1800-1910' by Christine Goodier MA
• Excecutions In Lancaster 1801-1910 by Christine Goodier MA
• 'The Gaol at Lancaster Castle' by Eric R. Wilkinson MA
• 'Edward Gibbon Wakefield- Statesman or Scoundrel?' by Lynette Morrissey MA
• 'King John, 1199-1216' by Peter Norris BA
• 'Lancaster's Catholic Martyrs' by Christine Goodier MA
• 'Prisoners of Conscience and Prison Visitors: The Quakers of Lancaster Castle' by Jenny Paull BA
• 'Thomas Rawcliffe' by Jenny Paull BA
• The Lancashire Riots by Christine Goodier MA
• 'The Samlesbury Witches' by Christine Goodier MA
• 'The Scold's Bridle' by Jenny Paull BA
• 'High Sherrifs of Lancashire, 1162-1215' by Colin Penny PhD
• 'High Sheriffs of Lancashire, 1216-1261' by Colin Penny PhD
• High Sherrifs of Lancashire 1272-1327 by Colin Penny Phd
• 'Thomas Harrison, 1744-1829: Architect of Lancaster Castle' by Peter Norris BA
• 'High Sheriffs of Lancashire: 1523-1549' by Colin Penny PhD