'Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt?' So began a ballad of around 1600. Since the event itself (25 October 1415), Agincourt has occupied a special place in both ...

As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march in search of a crossing of the Somme, can only have dreamt ...

Collects the names of every soldier known to have served the English Crown from 1369 to the loss of Gascony in 1453, and seeks to investigate the different types of soldier ...

A lively survey that re-creates the story of the Hundred Years War - the longest war in European history.

Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all useful roads lead ...

The only one who believes Libby Marie can dance ballet is Libby Marie. Is she deluding herself, or was she meant to dance? Despite an abusive husband who does all he can to ...