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Hello and welcome back to Epox.

If you remember last time we left off on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, St Crispin's Day,

25th of October 1415.

So we'll pick up right there.

I did promise that read for more than one source this time, but however I will pick up once again with Ian Maltimer and then we'll move on to different accounts.

First thing to say is that despite the amount of evidence we've got, I've said a number of times in this series, haven't I, that we're actually blessed with quite a lot of information.

It's still the early 15th century, so it's not completely in the light of history, as we might like.

I mean, it is completely in the light of history, but, you know, we're not flooded with sources.

One of the things say about the Battle of Asian Corps is that even though there are accounts

from both sides, it's not sort of a perfect picture we've got.

In fact, it's far from a perfect picture.

And that's one of the things why I want to read from multiple different sources in this episode

and maybe the next episode is to show that different historians have got different ideas

about exactly what happened.

I mean, if we just talk about the archaeology very briefly, the battlefield where people always thought, always said the Battle of Agincourt took place.

In recent years, archaeologists have shown that it's almost certainly not the battlefield.

The battlefield must be in that area.

It must be nearby, but the actual field that historians thought was Agincourt.

There's like not really anybody's there. There's hardly any arrowheads. It's sort of clearly not a battlefield.

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