Graeme Rimer, Academisch Directeur van het Royal Armouries Museum, brengt een levenslange passie voor wapens en bepantsering in zijn uitgebreide werk. Beginnend als vrijwilliger in zijn jeugd, omvat zijn carrière curatoriële rollen en leiderschap in belangrijke museumontwikkelingsprojecten. Rimer is een productief auteur en spreker, die zijn expertise over historische wapens deelt via talrijke publicaties en internationale lezingen. Zijn bijdragen strekken zich uit tot belangrijk archeologisch onderzoek en de redactionele leiding van belangrijke tijdschriften, wat zijn reputatie als toonaangevende autoriteit op dit gebied verstevigt.
This magnificent publication illuminates the life and reign of Henry VIII and shows how his influence still resonates down the centuries as sportsman, king and icon. A stunning range of new imagery complements the text, presenting many of these pieces as they have never been seen before in glorious high definition.
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.
Like most 18-year-old girls, Eden Owens has dreams for her future. But she also knows her chances of achieving her goals are overshadowed by her environment. She often sits in the dismal bedroom she shares with her younger sister, Abby, and prays for a miracle. More than anything else, Eden desperately wants a college education. When she approaches her brutish father, Clem, and nervously asks him if he has set aside money for her to go to college, her father laughs in her face. Eden knew then and there that she had no choice but to resume her miserable life in the slums of Maramount, Illinois. But fate has other plans for Eden. Mrs. Omaha, her favorite teacher, works behind the scenes with Professor Altgeld, a poet laureate, to include Eden on the meritorious Studies Abroad cruise program. As Eden embers upon a study voyage around the world, her nautical adventure opens her eyes to corruption, vice, and immorality that leads to a personal journey of self- discovery. Eden's determination to pursue her dream will drive her to excel scholastically. Although she will meet the love of her life, her journey will be fraught with bullies, rape, murder, and a mysterious stranger who exacts revenge in his own diabolical way.
This exhibition catalogue highlights forty wheellock firearms from the Royal Armouries collection, representing a selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe. The development of the wheellock mechanism in the early 16th century enabled firearms to be made that could be carried and held in one hand. This mechanism demanded great skill from gunmakers. It was a complex ad expensive device in use for 200 years, and wealthy patrons had wheellocks fitted to some of the most elegant and highly decorated firearms of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Royal Armouries contains over 170 wheellock firearms and this exhibition highlights 40 of the very best to illustrate the earliest forms of the mechanism, the technical curiosities it caused and a representative selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe.