Why the Battle of Agincourt is still important today

Outnumbered and outmanoeuvred, when Henry V won the Battle of Agincourt it was a famous victory in the Hundred Years War between the English and the French. And it was all because of the humble longbow. Now, on the 600th anniversary of the Battle, Linda Davies explains how it her new book, Longbow Girl, plus shares some fun facts about the longbow that we bet you never knew!

What should I read next?

When the weather outside is frightful, it’s the perfect time to cosy up with a good read. If you’re looking for the best books to keep you warm on these cool autumn nights, our site members have the perfect picks for you…

A firefighter, a physicist and a fire dancer read poems about light

Finding a firefighter willing to read a poem was not the easiest task, poet Liz Brownlee found, when she started searching for people whose lives are involved some way in light to be filmed reading poems about light for National Poetry Day. Watch the results of her project in these films

Dyslexia poems by Sally Gardner and Ros Asquith

In Dyslexia Awareness Week we have two beautiful poems, DyslexiaaAAARGH by Ros Asquith and The Box by Sally Gardner (who is herself dyslexic) which explore the frustrations as well as the upsides of dyslexia