#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Learn more about her rise, and fall, here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons @histodons

Seeking an interesting political complication for the background to the next Owen Archer book I automatically go to Jonathan Sumption's amazing series on the Hundred Years War, in this case, vol. III, Houses Divided. The detail, the perspective from both sides--no one matches him. And he writes so well I fall right into reading far more than I'd intended. #medieval #histodons #HundredYearsWar #history #historians

#Nowell #HundredYearsWar #Normandy #Battlefieldarchaeology
A few years ago Dr Anne Curry at the University of Southampton undertook a project to transcribe hundreds of Medieval rolls containing the names of knights, men at arms & archers who were taking part in the 100 Years War.
To my great surprise, my Medieval Nowell family from #Read in #Lancashire appeared in the database 88 times.
This enabled me to research several of the campaigns.
https://nick-balmer.blogspot.com/2015/05/

2022-23 issue of The #CastleStudiesGroup Journal arrives in the post. As ever, a most substantial volume, beautifully illustrated
& packed with interesting articles. Membership is a snip at £25 pa. I hadn’t heard that Anthony Emery died last summer. As his obituary notes, his important books, incl. The Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500 (3 vols) & Seats of Power in Europe during the #HundredYearsWar, were written after early retirement from business. #castles @histodons