The Royal Armouries houses the Littlecote Collection, the most important surviving armoury of the English Civil War.
We something Christmas be more than Many private armouries furnished with relics of the English Civil War existed in Britain, but they were dispersed until the only major example left intact was the Popham armoury at Littlecote House.
Independent non-fiction publisher Unicorn Publishing Group (UPG) revealed on Tuesday that it has entered into a global sales and distribution agreement with the Royal Armouries for all the museum's titles about arms and armour.
The Royal Armouries is the UK's national museum of arms and armour, with a collection assembled over many centuries at the Tower of London.
But a huge reduction in piracy has fuelled fears security firms will go bust, leaving unregulated
armouries at risk from terrorists and black-marketeers.
Over the next two years, $135 million will be invested in projects involving repairs to roofs, siding, plumbing, and heating and ventilation system at
armouries across Canada.
Thanks to a unique collaboration between the Royal
Armouries and the prestigious private collection of Louisvillian Owsley Brown Frazier, the Frazier Historical Arms Museum tells the remarkable history of America and the British Isles, from 1066 to the early 1900s, through state-of-the-art audio visuals and multi-media displays, dramatic lifestyle tableaus, costumed interpreters and a priceless collection of arms, armor and related historical artifacts.
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Entitled The Unseen Collection, it comprises a series of photographs showing X-ray images of armour, guns, arrows and swords, and forms part of the
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Armouries in Leeds.
Lt Gen Jonathon Riley, whose ancestors hail from the tiny area of Riley, Kirkburton, takes up his new post with the
Armouries in June when he leaves the army following a distinguished career, which included commanding the British forces in Iraq.
A Huddersfield historian has conducted research with the Royal
Armouries which reveals that swords were often seen as the fashion of their day.
A weekend of song and dance - and fighting from the Royal
Armouries - is promised at the first annual Shepley Spring Festival.
