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Henry V became a hero by defeating the French at Agincourt in 1415. It was a battle memorialized in Shakespeare's play "Henry V" -- with several stirring speeches ("we band of…

In the last decades of the 14th century, during the reign of Richard II, military, political and literary shifts contributed to a rising sense of what it meant to be English -- and just how secure…

Edward II was the first English king deposed after the Norman Conquest. Standard history says he was then murdered. But was he?

Magna Carta, signed by King John in 1215, did not settle the disputes between the monarch and his barons. John's son, Henry III, reigned for more than 50 turbulent years in which the barons…

It was a time of radical change, a time of violence. England was under siege, internally and externally, by foreign adversaries. Being on the wrong side, politically or religiously, could result in…