We were delighted to collaborate with researchers at Lancaster University and Duchy of Lancaster to create a monumental sound and light display at Lancaster Castle for Light Up Lancaster 2023.

The display showcased the history of the Duchy of Lancaster and the centrepiece of its medieval archive, the Great Cowcher Book, at its ancestral home.  Around 1402, King Henry IV, who was heir to the Duchy of Lancaster, commissioned the Great Cowcher Book: an incredible record of land, titles and rights within the Duchy of Lancaster ownership. 

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Over the nights of November 2 to 4, the Duchy’s medieval archive – from the magnificent illustrations from the Great Cowcher to the Duchy’s charters and its records of forests in Lancashire and beyond – lit up the Castle walls, amidst a dramatic soundscape including readings from the Great Cowcher.

Thanks to Lancaster University historian Professor Fiona Edmonds and her colleague Dr Sophie Thérèse Ambler for all their support.