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 ...

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 bowman his face say they have also ...

“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 ...

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 ...