The Royal Armouries in Leeds: the Making of a Museum

Walker, Derek

Wilson, Guy

Royal Armouries

This is the first detailed survey of eprouvettes (gunpowder-testers) ever attempted in a single volume. The core of the book is an illustrated survey of types; it also contains a survey of gunpowder testing through the ages, a suggested typology for eprouvettes, and experimental data based on firings carried out by the author. The volume is completed by a series of appendices, including a listing of over 700 eprouvettes.

Eprouvettes: A Comprehensive Study of Early Devices for the Testing of Gunpowder

History

Kempers, R.T.W.

Military

Torture and Punishment

Royal Armouries Staff

Europe

The Royal Armouries artillery collection is housed in one of the Palmerston Forts near Portsmouth. This guidebook takes an overview of the history of artillery and tells the story of Fort Nelson and how the Royal Armouries came to be there. A full plan of the site is included.

Royal Armouries Fort Nelson

Unknown, Author

Travel

The Mediterranean island of Rhodes formed the base for the Knights of St John from 1306 until the capture of the island by the Ottoman Turks in 1522. The armour they left behind on Rhodes was discovered in the middle of the nineteenth century, and was recognised as an exceedingly important find for the study of medieval armour. Over the ensuing decades it was brought back to Europe, and since that time individual pieces and groups of the armour have been scattered among public and private collections in Europe and America. The authors of this study have tracked down almost all of the pieces from the find, and presented them in a catalogue form so that the total contents of the find can be assessed for the first time since their dispersal. The catalogue also describes the relationships that exist between the Rhodes pieces and other surviving elements of medieval armour, as well as armour depicted in medieval art, and provides an essential source of reference on the whole field of European armour of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.Winner of the inaugural Justus Lipsius Award 2002 for outstanding contributions to arms, armour and military studies

The Medieval Armour From Rhodes

Richardson, Thom

Karcheski Jr., Walter J.

Karcheski, Walter

Turner, Paula

This book draws on a wide range of sources (parish registers, wills, trade-cards, property and insurance details), from the seventeenth century to the present day, to create biographies of the lives and business activities of all the main hilt makers, sword cutlers and allied tradesmen. These men (and women) worked in London and designed, made, decorated and provided swords, weapons, and military accoutrements, either as specialist craftsmen, or as appointed merchants, or as prominent shopkeepers as part of general trading. This directory forms the centre-piece of the volume; it is accompanied by an introduction surveying the types and designs of swords made in London from 1600 onwards, the craftsmen who made them, and the tradesmen who sold them. Full illustrations of all the types and designs of London-made sword, and of related material, complete the volume.

London Silver-hilted Swords: Their Makers, Suppliers And Allied Traders, With Directory

Southwick, Leslie

In celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the English throne, an international exhibition, 'Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill', was held at the Tower of London in partnership between the Royal Armouries and Historic Royal Palaces. Published to coincide with the launch of the exhibition, this definitive publication illustrates and records over 90 Henrician treasures drawn from the Royal Armouries' own collections and from museums and institutions worldwide. Leading historians and specialists in arms and armour have contributed major essays on subjects which encompass the wide-ranging aspects of Henry's reign from war and politics to dress and dining.

Henry VIII: Arms and the Man

Biographies & Memoirs

Rimer, Graeme

Cooper, J.P.D.

Historical

From Captain George Francklin Atkinson, the celebrated author of Curry and Rice on Forty Plates, comes the iconic The Campaign in India. Atkinson, an officer of the Bengal Engineers in the 1850s, sketched the British response to the Indian Rebellion. Widely denigrated for overlooking the Indian perspective, The Campaign in India is unsurpassed as a record of the English attitude to India at 1857. This Royal Armouries facsimile includes, for the first time, both the text and illustrations from Atkinson’s work.

The Campaign in India

Riches, Simon

Asia

The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H.P. Pearson

Heathcote, T.A.

The Littlecote House armory is the most important surviving armory of the English Civil Wars. This volume contains a history of the armory and an account of how the collection, threatened by dispersion at auction, was saved for the British nation in the 1980s. It includes a full catalogue of the contents of the armory, featuring the single most important group of mid-seventeenth century English military guns in existence and the largest surviving group of buff leather equipment in the world. Featuring four hundred black-and-white illustrations and authored by international experts on European firearms and armor, Littlecote is an illuminating volume of the English Civil Wars, ideal for students and researchers of seventeenth-century Britain.

Littlecote: The English Civil War Armoury

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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