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 | Oct 12, 2015 | Events, Latest News, Uncategorised
In the last week, I have visited all of our participating schools to deliver workshops to Year 9 students designed to get them excited about Shakespeare and to remove some of the fear and intimidation that comes with studying Shakespeare’s plays in school. As a former...
by vm_admin | Oct 7, 2015 | Events, Latest News, Uncategorised
Designer Carl Davies is the mastermind behind the set designs and costumes for The Berry Theatre’s new Agincourt play The Road To Glory. Here in a 60-second style interview the gifted designer talks about his involvement in the exciting project which tells the...
by vm_admin | Oct 6, 2015 | Events, Latest News, Uncategorised
An artist based at Eastleigh Borough Council’s design and maker studios The Sorting Office has been commissioned to create costumes for a new play about Agincourt. Historical costumier Helen McArdle, who is fast becoming one of the region’s leading costume...
by vm_admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Film, Latest News, Uncategorised
And so, we reach our final analysis of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film production of Henry V. So far, we’ve seen that Branagh’s version of Henry is a far darker soul than Laurence Olivier’s incarnation of the King. But how would this change as we depart Southampton...
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...
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