Agincourt

The mystique of Henry V remains as powerful as ever

14 September 2024 9:00 am

The belligerent young hero of Agincourt really was the model of a medieval monarch, doing the job exactly as it was supposed to be done, according to Dan Jones

Going Dutch: Eelco Smits and Janni Goslinga of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in ‘Kings of War’

All the world’s a stage

23 April 2016 9:00 am

James Woodall talks to the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who has brought a swathe of Shakespeare’s history plays to the stage in Dutch (four hours of it)

Battle fatigue

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Can anyone explain this sudden enthusiasm for Agincourt, that unexpected victory over the French, now being celebrated, or rather commemorated,…

Art by committee

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Australia, 1788. A transport ship arrives in Port Jackson (later Sydney harbour) carrying hundreds of convicts and a detachment of…

For France, the murder of John the Fearless was ‘a tragedy on an epic scale’

Another near run thing

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Charles VI of France died on 21 October 1422. He had been intermittently mad for most of his long reign,…