Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brutal events of 26 August 1346, when the armies of France and England met in a funnel-shaped valley outside the town of Crécy in northern France. Although the ...

This new narrative account of the Battle of Crécy in 1346 reveals how modern scholars have used both traditional fieldwork and satellite technologies to help unlock the exact location of the now quiet ...

In 1360, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch to us) wrote a letter expressing his puzzlement at a great change that had taken place during his lifetime. In his boyhood, he said, the English ‘were taken to be ...

Here is the short version: In the summer of 1346 the English kicked the snot out of the French in one of the most lopsided military victories of the Middle-Ages. It was the first of the major ...

Mentor: Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. In the summer of 1346, the kingdoms of England and France were at war. This feud of the Plantagenet (England) and Valois (France) dynasties, known as the Hundred Years’ ...

A Welsh town has signed a 'declaration of friendship' with a French community despite battling with their ancestors almost seven-hundred years ago. Longbowmen from Llantrisant fought at the Battle of ...