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

Of all the books published by the Royal Armouries, the Arms and Armour series is the most endurin...

The idea of late medieval arms and armour often conjures up images of lumbering warriors, clad in...

The shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is known as the 'shot heard around the worl...

The Elizabethan court was a vibrant and colourful place, where the inherited traditions and techn...

India is a vast sub-continent with a complex history and a great array of languages, cultures and...

Fighting to Kill explores the significance of infantry units for those who fought the Second Worl...

A road block is a tiny battlefield.Here, all the principles of strategy and tactics apply - just ...

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...

Jousting is the most iconic form of mounted combat. For more than five hundred years, the sport i...

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

In the run-up to World War II, the British government published a number of training booklets for...

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