Today, archers in period costume still take aim at targets on the grounds as though preparing for war.
"I have had a wonderful time running The Archers, always interesting and exciting, " Whitburn said.
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It is documented that archers were aboard the ship when it sank in 1545.
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She was cast as Debbie Aldridge on BBC Radio 4's The Archers in 1991.
Archers, mounted Knights, and anyone in Heavy Armor have too much of an advantage.
The outgoing editor of The Archers has said she was "cyber-bullied" by listeners over the show's storylines.
And a missing Archers episode, featuring the very first appearance of Brian Aldridge in 1975, was found.
Scots fought on the English side, while Welsh archers and Irish footsoldiers were important to the English.
From the quarter-final stage onwards, archers shoot a maximum of five sets, with three arrows per set.
Black belts in judo tumbled next to archers, arm wrestlers, and Bulgarian hand-balancers.
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Each team, which consists of three archers, is ranked according to their cumulative scores in the qualification round described above.
The top 64 archers advance to the elimination round and are ranked from one to 64 depending on their score.
Ms Davis plays Hayley in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers, and has also appeared on television in the hospital drama Casualty.
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Crassus's legions were no match for the Parthian archers, nimble horsemen who could loose their arrows off even as they turned.
Meanwhile, Archers fans are delighted by the emergence of long-lost recordings of the show featured in a new Radio 4 series.
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Harrison, who has appeared in The Archers for 21 years, said it was "the greatest accolade I have received as an actor".
Some bows required a lifetime of training and immense strength as the archers had to pull weights up to 200lbs (about 90kg).
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The archers are free to choose the order of shooting, but they only have two minutes in which to complete each end.
In the elimination round, archers are paired head-to-head in a knockout format.
Team GB programme manager, Ceri-Ann Davies, said it was important the archers gained a sense of the pressure they would be put under.
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Despite the strength of the sport in South Korea, its archers have never managed to get their hands on the men's individual Olympic prize.
Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
Swansea University sports scientists are hoping to find out more about the toll on the bodies of archers who had to pull heavy bows.
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Team GB archers were subjected to a barrage of noise from schoolchildren while they practised at Lilleshall in Shropshire for the 2012 Olympics .
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Barry College is setting up a boccia club for its students, while the Caerau Bowmen club, based in Barry, says it wants more disabled archers.
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Actress Heather Bell is to return to The Archers in February to reprise the part of Clarrie Grundy, more than 30 years after creating the role.
Mr McGlynn said he led a band of archers who attacked the French forces in the forests of the Kent Weald before the 18-month occupation ended.
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