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 24, 2015 | Events, Latest News, Uncategorised
Last week the Drama Development department, along with students from Barton Peveril visited Wildern School, Hamble Community Sports College and Hounsdown school to present our 10-minute version of Macbeth. The final piece ended up being nearer to 15 minutes but was...
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 | Sep 15, 2015 | Events, Latest News, Uncategorised
“I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe’er you come to know it, answer me” Next week a cast of six young actors from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College begins a week-long tour of the local secondary schools participating in Shakespearience 2015. They hope...
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