Six hundred years before Britain voted for independence from Europe, the Sceptered Isle came the closest it ever has to attaching all of France to its realm. The historian Dan Jones’s “Henry V” argues ...

Dan Jones and Professor Michael Livingston walk through the battlefield of Shrewsbury, where the future king Henry V took an arrow to the face. The battle took place in 1403, when a rebellion broke ...

Shakespeare took some license with the scene, but there was indeed a historical humiliation. Dan Jones, the newest biographer of England’s King Henry V (Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s ...

In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.

I’m a fan of England’s King Henry V. Although not a Shakespeare enthusiast, I’ve always been captivated by the film version with Kenneth Branagh in the lead — especially the famous speech: “We few, we ...