An Axe to the Head: The Key to Henry V's Success

The British credit Henry V with tactical and strategic nous, but does his success owe more to a brutal political assassination that split the French nation? Dr Helen Castor examines this in this short clip.

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Dr Helen Castor

Dr Castor is a Historian of Medieval England and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. 

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