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Jamie MacDonald is a rare breed. He is a “bowyer”- that’s someone who makes traditional handcrafted archery bows. Not only that but, although he makes several types of custom ordered bows, he ...

For every English boy, there is an instant when it's two o'clock on an October afternoon in 1415. The decisive English victory at Agincourt, with the annihilation of the numerically superior French ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the tremendous success of the English yeoman longbow archers and how they successfully defeated French cavalry time and again during the Hundred Years War (see: “What Can the ...

Until the advent of firearms, the English longbow was the most formidable weapon of Medieval times. It was made of yew wood, a very ancient species of evergreen conifer so long-lived, some specimens ...

The English longbow was a powerful medieval weapon said to be able to pierce an opponent's armor and may have been a decisive factor in several key military victories, most notably the Battle of ...