On a calm summer day in 1545, a French invasion fleet lay at anchor off Portsmouth , poised to attack England. On that day, Henry VIII’s fa...

Avalon  http://avalon-medieval.blogspot.com/ has recently asked me to contribute something for ‘Native American Month,’ and as she is a h...

For at least 800 years the legend of Robin Hood has been enhanced and embellished by minstrels and story-tellers. With the start of the rec...

Above is a picture of Richard Greene (1918-1985), star of the classic long-running British TV series the Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-19...

In modern images of ‘Robin Hood’, the outlaw cannot be separated from his so-called ‘longbow’. But the terms ‘longbow’ nor ‘ longbowman’ w...

The use of whistling arrows , by Robin and his band of outlaws in Disney’s Story of Robin Hood , is a unique addition to the legend by Lawre...

What of the bow? The bow was made in England: Of true wood, of yew wood, The wood of English bows; So men who are free Love the old yew tree...

* Somtyme I was an archere good, A styffe and eke a stronge; I was compted the best archere That was in mery Englonde. *A Gest of Robyn Hode...