Dr White now teaches art history part-time in the Continuing Education Department at Oxford University, as well as freelance lecturing and teaching.
Since 1337, England and France had been engaged in what would become known as The Hundred Years’ War. So far, there had been raids and skirmishes, and one major sea battle, but in July 1346 King Edward III launched an invasion of Normandy. In the following months, Edward would lead his army to the very outskirts of Paris before turning northwards towards Calais. But between the English and the sea lay a French army and, out-numbered and out-manoeuvred, Edward was forced to stand and fight at Crécy. This talk tells the story of the campaign, the battle and the struggle to control a channel port that followed.
A ZOOM Lecture
