| FROISSART | A Medieval historian whose Chronicles detail many events of the Hundred Years' War |
| ANNALIST | A medieval historian who created brief chronological lists of events (8) |
| ANIMATEDLY | Detail many works with passion (10) |
| CRECY | The site of a decisive English victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War (5) |
| AGINCOURT | One of the best-known battles of the Hundred Years' War, famous for its widespread use of the Iongbow (9) |
| AQUITAINE | Historical region of south-west France ruled by England's kings from 1154 to the end of the Hundred Years' War (9) |
| ORLEANS | French city liberated from the English by Joan of Arc on 8 May 1429 as part of the Hundred Years War (7) |
| BILBO | Hobbit who found the One Ring, setting in motion the events of The Lord of the Rings |
| ANDROMACHE | Athenian tragedy by Euripides that dramatises the heroine's life as a slave after the events of the Trojan War |
| ANNAL | A register of the events of the year by Anne and Albert |
| CALAIS | Port that was the last of the territory won by the English in the Hundred Years' War to be regained by the French |
| CLASSICS | Greek and Latin studies; or, the five events of the flat race season including the Oaks (8) |
| DISCUS | One of the events of the ancient Greek pentathlon (6) |
| RELATE | Give an account of: - the events of the day |
| XENOPHON | Greek historian whose Hellenica chronicled the end of the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| SIMONSCHAMA | British historian and art historian whose TV series include A History of Britain and Power of Art |
| MARY | Dame ___, historian whose works include Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008) (4,5) |
| TAWNEY | R H ___, English economic historian whose works include the 1926 volume Religion and the Rise of Capitalism |
| ATWORST | In the event of the utmost calamity a couple are reportedly stumped (2,5) |
| BURGHERS | The ___ Of Calais, series of sculptures by Auguste Rodin portraying six French citizens in The Hundred Years War (8) |
