Notes : Can use clip to study Norman life, Welsh archers and Welsh castles. How did Welsh archery skills become so highly valued? Look at wars of the Norman period - in how many of them is there ...

including his age and rank This is the reconstructed face of a medieval archer who drowned on King Henry VIII’s ship the Mary Rose. And scientists at a Welsh university who gave the long lost ...

By making a biomechanical analysis of the skeletons of the medieval archers he and his team examined ... in the Middle Ages the English and Welsh were famous for their very powerful Welsh longbows ...

‘I presume that Graham Morgan, in referring to “medieval English archers”, is in fact referring to the cohorts of Welsh archers employed by the English at Crecy and Agincourt against French ...

It is said they were instrumental in helping Henry V win the Battle of Agincourt - one of the best-known events in British history. Now a lasting memorial has been created to honour the 500 Welsh ...

University researchers have been awarded a grant of almost £900,000 to produce a new edition of the works of a medieval "giant" of Welsh poetry. The grant, to the University of Wales' Centre for ...

The Welsh climate deteriorated after 1300. Wet summers, disease among domestic animals and soil exhaustion caused agricultural problems. By 1320, the population was in decline and would not return ...

The trouble with classic Welsh literature, as expounded in this magisterial volume, is that on the whole it does lack vibrancy and humour, preferring to be dank and dark. The medieval minstrels ...