The Battle of Crécy in 1346 marked a turning point in medieval warfare and England’s rise as a military force. Heavily ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brutal 1346 conflict between the French army, led by Philip VI, and the English, under Edward III, after years of simmering tension. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

1346: Genoese mercenaries fighting under Philip VI of France are surprised, unpleasantly, when they are among the first soldiers in history to come under cannon fire. It has been claimed that this ...

Llantrisant will sign a ‘declaration of friendship’ with the French community where its ancestors fought almost 700 years ago. In 1346, the famous longbowmen of Llantrisant fought at Crécy-en-Ponthieu ...

Edward had to find money to fund his invasion of France. He set up Staple Ports and demanded that all wool exports be made via these ports. In 1346 he and his son, Edward, aged 16, invaded France ...