Tag: Henry VI Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Magic and civil warThursday 19 January 2023Magic (to the medieval mind at least) could be used to produce real-world effects...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Treasonous wordsThursday 12 January 2023The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still...Records and researchGood will to all: Henry VI’s Christmas pardon of 1470-71Friday 18 December 2020Those watching in bemusement, as every year before Thanksgiving the President of the United...Records and researchThe Records of the Readeption Parliament of 1470-71Thursday 26 November 2020For most of the Parliaments of the later middle ages, the records are remarkably...Records and researchThe birth (and the death?) of Edward VMonday 2 November 2020In this blog I take a look at some of those left behind in...Records and researchThe 550th anniversary of Henry VI’s ReadeptionFriday 2 October 2020October 2020 marks the start of the 550th anniversary of what historians know as...Records and researchThe 600th anniversary of the Treaty of TroyesThursday 21 May 202021 May 2020 marks the 600th anniversary of the Treaty of Troyes, a peace...Archives and archivistsChertsey Abbey reimaginedWednesday 19 June 2019To walk through Chertsey, a medieval market town on the outskirts of London, you...Records and researchSir Hugh John: an ideal 15th century knight?Friday 18 December 2015It is amazing how a quiet afternoon at The National Archives can provide an...