Course: Agincourt 1415: Myth and Reality

If you would like to take your interest in this week’s topics further, the books listed below are recommended reading and we have referred to most of them during the …

We hope you’ve enjoyed learning about the battle of Agincourt on this course. A good place to find out more about the battle and recent events is the Agincourt 600 …

In this video, we interview delegates at an international conference on Agincourt about why they think it is important to commemorate the battle. In the next step, you will have …

Live panel discussion – what makes a decisive battle? Listen to our discussion and put your questions about Agincourt to our panel. We held a live discussion answering questions put …

We hope that you have enjoyed this course. We would like to remind you, that whilst we will not be providing facilitation in the comments and discussions after Sunday 3rd …

In this video, Anne interviews Malcolm Mercer about the Royal Armouries’ 2015 exhibition celebrating 600 years of Agincourt. The exhibition ‘The Battle of Agincourt’ ran at the Tower of London …

In this video, Anne and Malcolm Mercer discuss the model at the heart of the 2015 Agincourt exhibition at the Tower of London. This model was created especially for the …

This video features Anne and Christophe Gilliot, Director of the Centre Historique d’Azincourt, France. They discuss one of the museum’s exhibits, a model of the battle created 15 years ago. …

In this step, the composer Professor David Owen Norris describes the creation of his piece ‘Turning Points’ which references aspects of Agincourt history. ‘Turning Points’ is an innovative composition highlighting …

In this article, Dan gives a personal account of some of the events which took place in the UK and France, in 2015, to commemorate the battle. 2015 was a …

In this article, Dan considers the connections between the battles of Agincourt and Waterloo. Four hundred years after the battle of Agincourt, another famous victory over a French army took …

In this article, Dan outlines how newspapers remembered the battle in subsequent years. The frequent conflict between Britain and France in the eighteenth century, especially in competition over their embryonic …

In this article, Dan discusses how the battle of Agincourt was viewed over the years after 1415, and how Shakespeare has influenced our ideas about what happened. Agincourt continued to …

In this article, Anne discusses the challenges which historians have faced in finding the actual site of the battlefield. Where was the battle fought? Early texts on both sides of …

If you would like to take your interest in this week’s topics further, the books listed below are recommended reading and we have referred to most of them during the …