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 ...

We’ve all imagined ourselves in the midst of a medieval battle at one point or another—and probably will again. Which is why the below test showing how shields perform against bows and arrows is not ...

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New research demonstrates the immense power of the medieval English longbow Nora McGreevy Correspondent The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Harold II with an arrow jutting from his head, but whether the ...

Jamie MacDonald is a rare breed. He is a “bowyer”- that’s someone who makes traditional handcrafted archery bows. Not only that but, although he makes several types of custom ordered bows, he ...

For every English boy, there is an instant when it's two o'clock on an October afternoon in 1415. The decisive English victory at Agincourt, with the annihilation of the numerically superior French ...

The longbow, the national weapon of the English army, was the machine gun of the Middle Ages... The longbow was one of the most devastating weapons of medieval times. Not only could it travel further ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the tremendous success of the English yeoman longbow archers and how they successfully defeated French cavalry time and again during the Hundred Years War (see: “What Can the ...