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нет войнe
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags нет войне, figurines, Instagram, Mir, New York T, Russian doll, Russian invasion, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War on July 2, 2023 by xi'an
battle of Agincourt, 600th commemoration [in miniature]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Agincourt, armour, battle, bowmen, cavalry, diorama, England, figurines, France, Henry V, Hundred Years' War, National Museum of Arms and Armours, October 25, tin soldiers, Tower of London on October 25, 2015 by xi'an
For the 600th commemoration of the battle of Agincourt, the National Museum of Arms and Armours [within the Tower of London] has commissioned a diorama of the battle that saw the French nobility decimated by English longbows, muddy fields, their heavy armours, and lust for glory…
The Royal Armouries have a blog describing the construction of this impressive diorama, which measures 4m x 2m and involves 4,400 figurines. And over 1,000 arrows stuck into the ground. Never forget the arrows!
At a personal level, besides a fascination for diorama [that started when I saw a D-Day diorama in one Norman museum as a kid] I had been told after The Accident that cutting some fingers was customary for captured bowmen, but this entry in Wikipedia writes it off as a myth.
