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I might be biased, but I think it's still quite reasonable

The fundraising campaign concluded as of this morning, and I'm delighted to announce that we reached our goal successfully. Several pieces of climate control machinery have already been bought, and the final pieces will be purchased over the course of this weekend. Some airtight boxes for the storag...

Just 3 days left before the fundraising campaign for the Triquetra Collection concludes! We have managed to raise a little over £800 so far, which has already been able to buy some dehumidifying units and space heaters to begin to work on the climate control within The Vanguard Centre. We have been ...

We have recorded a short video to showcase a few of the items in the Triquetra Collection, and to discuss the value of the Collection for history students and enthusiasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePkZRdF3SU0 We want to make the Collection more easily accessible to local, national, and intern...

We have prepared an ordered list of the items in the Triquetra Collection, indicating the year in which each item was bought into the collection. Highly detailed data sheets are under preparation, and will begin to become available on this page as they are finished. Similarly, the page will be updat...

https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,h_413,w_620/v1468592105/lbxscpzejjzlbkv0zums.jpg The Academy of Historical Arts is helping to provide a home for the Triquetra Collection in our full-time training facility, The Vanguard Centre. However, the Triquetra charita...

http://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/images/Memoirs-of-Serjeant-Donald-Macleod-1791-small.jpg Serjeant Donald Macleod was quite the character, with great longevity, incredible fighting skills, and a knack for meeting important people and becoming friendly with them. He served in many regiments of ...

http://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/images/Dagger-Fencing-the-Italian-School-small.jpg Today, fighting with dagger versus dagger, or with knife versus knife, is not a common scenario that people might expect to face. However, it was more common in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, when it w...

http://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/images/True-Principles-of-the-Single-Sword-small.jpg In the second half of the seventeenth century, the rapier commonly became lighter and shorter, with a smaller hilt, and eventually developed into the smallsword, also known as the court sword. Often, this dev...

http://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/images/History-of-the-Rebellion-of-1745-small.jpg First published in 1828, and revised several times until 1869, the History of the Rebellion of 1745-6 by the famous Scottish historian, scientist and author Robert Chambers is a premier scholarly work on the sub...

Excellent! We in ARMA Houston got a lot of mileage out of Mr. van Noort's earlier translation, so it will be interesting to see what improvements he's made. This is very good manual for beginning your study of rapier, and we greatly appreciate his hard work in making it available. That's wonderful ...

http://www.fallenrookpublishing.co.uk/images/Of-the-Single-Rapier-small.jpg In 1671, Johannes Georgius Bruchius published the Grondige Beschryvinge van de Edele ende Ridderlijcke Scherm- ofte Wapen-Konste in Leiden, in the Netherlands. In his work, Bruchius described a style of rapier fencing that ...

http://www.academyofhistoricalarts.co.uk/publishing/images/legends-of-the-black-watch-small.jpg Ten years after the 1715 Jacobite uprising, General Wade came to the Highlands with the mission to pacify the clans and uphold the law. On the command of King George I, he raised six independent Highland...

http://www.historical-academy.co.uk/publishing/images/Encased%20in%20Steel%20Anthology%20I%20-%20small.jpg Celebrating four years of Encased in Steel. The writing team behind the Encased in Steel blog (Keith Farrell, Alex Bourdas and Ben Kerr, with guest author Benjamin Hawkins) have compiled some ...

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