The Eagle and the Hart, Helen Castor’s biography of Richard II and Henry IV, offers an enthralling account of the two cousins ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

at the hands of Henry’s father Henry Bolingbroke, the newly-minted Henry IV. In the interim, the teenager had watched power slip quickly away from Richard, who was 32 years old, but branded by ...

The film begins as KING RICHARD II (Ben Whishaw) tries to resolve a bitter dispute between his cousin, HENRY BOLINGBROKE (Rory Kinnear) and THOMAS MOWBRAY (James Purefoy). BOLINGBROKE has been ...

In “A Voyage to the Demerary,” Henry Bolingbroke described the typical plantation in Demerara-Essequibo as a “curious mixture of European industry, arithmetic, and frugality, with a Caribbee ...

Her fears are confirmed when SIR HENRY GREEN (Harry Haddenn Paton) charges into the room to announce that BOLINGBROKE has landed on English soil. YORK joins them and, as the country’s Governor ...

1812: British forces defeat US forces attempting to invade Canada at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. 1860: The oldest surviving aerial photo is taken from a balloon of Boston, Massachusettes.

With King Henry IV on his deathbed, Hal mistakenly thinks Bolingbroke is dead and leaves his father's bedside with the crown. Bolingbroke awakes and is distressed by this -- he believes Prince Hal ...

Residents in a historic village are determined to save their last pub after two others were lost. The Black Horse Inn in Old ...

The accession and coronation of Henry II took place on the same day. He was not only king of England, but also ruled over most of Wales, Normandy, Anjou, Gascony and other parts of France ...