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By Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Henry V’s chaplain Thomas Elmham, an eyewitness of the battle of Agincourt, gave us this account of the King in the moments before the fighting began.
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From the Passion of St Edmund, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Edmund, King of the East Angles, is given a stark choice by the Viking warrior who has ravaged his realm.
From the Utrecht Psalter, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf reminds us that God’s gifts to men are many and varied, and nobody ever gets them all.
From Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Archdeacon and diplomat Peter of Blois was a frequent guest at the laden tables of King Henry II, but he had little appetite for the fare on offer.
By Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Back in the eleventh century English refugees founded New York, but it wasn’t in North America.
© Niels Elgaard Larsen, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 generic.
In Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, a man from Kent founded a glittering church for English refugees.
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