There is some debate concerning the origin of the British obscene gesture, the “V-Sign,” and whether it is related to threats or reality of severing the fingers of archers at around the time of the battle of Agincourt. Most sober observers claim that reports of the day do not mention this practice and Desmond Morris finds the earliest mention of dis-digitising archers 80 years later than the battle. Apparently you mention the practice of cutting off archers’s fingers in your book Harlequin. Please may I ask if that part of the book fiction or based on historical research? Thanks Tim