Wall Relief of Horse Archers, Neo-Assyrian 865-860 BC. (British Museum) A horse archer is a cavalryman armed with a bow who can shoot while riding on the back of a horse. This style of warfare appears ...

“NOW, good fellows, do like Englishmen this day!” the Earl of Surrey is supposed to have exclaimed as he rallied his troops for the Battle of Flodden, one of the landmark conflicts of British history ...

Combat archers Wayne, Brad and Nate Dennis kept to high ground in a wooded ravine as their opponents charged at the front men below. Brad – with his hand pulling back on the crossbow string and his ...

HIGHWAY officials are used to opposition in the form of conservationists and angry residents. But Highways England has found a new enemy – a band of medieval archers. Following a demonstration by ...

Philippa Byrne, Fellow in Medieval History at Somerville College, argues that many of the key themes and storylines in The Archers recall that period’s clash between the “medieval ideal of dignity of ...

The Bourne Retinue of Archers teaches swordplay as well as archery Young people are being urged to look to the past by learning the arts of swordplay and archery. A medieval society in North ...

HIGHWAY officials are used to opposition in the form of conservationists and angry residents. But Highways England has found a new enemy – a band of medieval archers. Following a demonstration by ...