About the Author

Thom Richardson is Deputy Master at the Royal Armouries and author of books and articles on European and Asian arms and armour, including The Medieval Armour from Rhodes. Anne Curry is Dean of Humanities at the University of Southampton and one of the world's leading experts on the battle of Agincourt. She is chair of the Agincourt 600 Committee, an organization marking the anniversary with celebrations in 2015. Professor Curry has made numerous appearances on radio (including three appearances on 'In Our Time') and TV (most recently on BBC4's 'The Hundred Years War'), and given many lectures to general audiences. She is the co-author of The Soldier in Later Medieval England (2013) and her other books include Agincourt: A New History (2006) and The Hundred Years War (2002). Peter Hoskins is a former RAF pilot and author of In the Steps of the Black Prince, The Road to Poitiers 1355-1356 and, with Anne Curry, Agincourt 1415: A Tourist's Guide to the Campaign. Dan Spencer is completing a PhD at the University of Southampton on English gunpowder artillery in the fifteenth century, on which he has published several articles.