Nigel Saul

Piety and Chivalry: St George's Chapel Windsor

Nigel Saul looks at a building which embodied much of England’s religious and political life in the later Middle Ages, and which staged the blessing of the Prince of Wales’s marriage on April 9th 2005.

Portrait of Britain: AD 1400

Nigel Saul tells how, in spite of famines and visitations of the plague, conditions were better than ever before for those living in 1400.

Bodiam Castle

Nigel Saul examines the social aspirations of a fourteenth-century Sussex castle and the man who built it.

Patronage in Gothic England

To the greater glory of God – but not forgetting to include the patron – was the guiding principle of the creative art of the Middle Ages.

Henry V and the Dual Monarchy

'Not as a conqueror but as a legitimate heir' – Henry's grand gamble to unite the crowns of England and France recognised the realities of national sentiment on both sides of the Channel.