HISTORY credits England's longbowmen with pulling off one of the country's most stunning military victories ever. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all ...

The New Fortune Theatre Company has opened its doors with an outstanding production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. The play describes one of England’s most illustrious victories: the Battle of Agincourt ...

In modern times it has become fashionable to question whether the potency of the longbow is romance rather than fact. Was it really possible that at Agincourt on October 25, 1415, a force of 5,000 ...

On the dank evening of October 24, 1415, the French had every reason for confidence. Their force of 20,000 soldiers was four times that of the perfidious English invaders under King Henry V. Henry’s ...

The field on which Henry V disposed his army at dawn, that chilly late October day, had recently been sown with winter wheat, its bare earth turned to glutinous mud by heavy downpours of rain, which ...

Jamie McDonald, of Powell River, B.C. has been making longbows in the traditional style for the past nine years. McDonald uses Pacific yew trees to construct his bows, and has gained a reputation as ...

ARCHERS from across East Lancashire invaded' the grounds of a rugby club to commemorate the anniversary of one of England's most fam-ous battle victories. Yesterday was 591 years to the day that, ...

1. King Henry is said to have chosen St Crispin’s Day to avenge the death of English archers killed by the French in a garrison at Soissons which was dedicated to the saints Crispin and Crispian. 2.

Bernard Cornwell’s novel “Agincourt” is a hybrid in which romance has been cross-pollinated with naturalism. The main fictional narrative begins in 1414, a year before the climactic battle at ...