by vm_admin | Oct 15, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
For centuries the English archer has been seen as the hero of the battle of Agincourt. Armed with his trusty longbow, this death-defying warrior has become the stuff of historical legend, and rightly so; without his willingness to engage in the furious melee...
by vm_admin | Sep 24, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
Everyone knows what a ‘navy’ is, don’t they? Usually, it is taken to mean a state fleet of some kind, like the British Royal Navy, or a mercantile marine such as the UK’s Merchant Navy. Neither usage fully expresses what 15th-century English people meant by the...
by vm_admin | Sep 23, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
The army that Henry V raised for the French campaign of 1415, although not the largest raised by the English crown during the period, was certainly a substantial force, consisting of about 12,000 fighting men. By the early fifteenth century the English crown had...
by vm_admin | Sep 17, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
As part of the filming for the Agincourt 1415: Myth and Reality MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), a small team from the University of Southampton (including myself and Professor Anne Curry) visited the site of the battlefield at Azincourt in the Pas-de-Calais earlier...
by vm_admin | Aug 5, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
Following on from my previous post this one will turn to discussing the upper chambers of a late medieval building. As I previously state late medieval buildings are laid out in a particular way. The high end of the great hall leads into a group of rooms traditionally...
by vm_admin | Jul 16, 2015 | History blog, Latest News, Uncategorised
Henry V spends his time in a series of late medieval castles and palaces in Hampshire. The period between the 14th and 15th century is seen as a period of transition in building style. Buildings constructed in this period are seen to form a type between the austere...
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