Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33, also known as the Tower Fechtbuch or the Walpurgis Manuscript, i...

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This fascinating book describes the torture and executions carried out at the Tower of London fro...

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How often do we hear commanders say they are practically defenceless without machine guns and ant...

The sequence here shows Andy Deane and David Perry from the Royal Armouries Interpretation team d...

The sequence here shows Royal Armouries' Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a gold-plate...

The sequence here shows Royal Armouries' Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Sten MK II...

Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the Western canon....

The sequence here shows Royal Armouries' Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Luger P.08...

The School of Fencing is a facsimile edition of Domenico Angelo's famous fencing manual of 1765. ...

Guidebook to Fort Nelson, the home of the UK's national collection of artillery.