The next few days will be the anniversary of one of the most important battles in the English-speaking world. This was the brutal encounter on the field of Agincourt on the Feast of St. Crispin, Oct.

In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.

Six hundred years before Britain voted for independence from Europe, the Sceptered Isle came the closest it ever has to attaching all of France to its realm. The historian Dan Jones’s “Henry V” argues ...

The actor opens up about how Charles, then Prince of Wales, inspired his performance as King Henry V of England. Before King Charles ascended to the throne of England, he spoke candidly to Kenneth ...

In a surge of creativity between 1595 and 1599, William Shakespeare wrote not only comedies, including “The Merchant of Venice” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” but also a quartet of sterner dramas ...