"We cannot know what impact the loss of his mother may have had on the young Henry. Modern historians have been critic…"

"The greatest problem that Henry faced was that, after a long minority, his subjects had become used to a king who did…"

"Henry might not be King Louis’s equal in matters of war, but he would be in matters of style (the confusion of style …"

"We might like to think of Henry III as a gentle and pious king (an image he wanted us to see), but many of those who …"

"Henry’s major problem was that the local communities of England rather liked the idea that the ruler needed their con…"

"In thirteenth-century Europe, battles were rare, in part because they occurred only when both sides felt certain that…"

"Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king’s job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church an…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"