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“Will No-One Rid Me Of This Turbulent Priest?”: The Assassination of Saint Thomas Becket
One of the novices pressed his eye to the crack in the Cathedral door. With a sharp intake of breath, he stumbled...
25 Sep
Medieval Blog
18 Sep
How Much Does a Longsword Weigh?
The protagonist has always got to have an enormous sword, right? That’s one of the universal laws of film, TV and...
11 Sep
How to Become a Bladesmith
So – you’ve watched all 9 seasons (235 episodes!) of History Channel’s Forged In Fire. You know everything you ne...
04 Sep
How to make Foam Weapons for LARP
There’s a huge range of LARP weapons available off the shelf – and we stock the very finest of them all, combinin...
28 Aug
How to Make a LARP Shield
So – you think your place is in the shield-wall, do you? You reckon you could stand shoulder to shoulder with you...
21 Aug
The Story of King Henry II of England
King Henry II came to power after the Anarchy, a sixteen-year long civil war which had shaken the foundations of ...
14 Aug
The Anarchy, Part 3: King Stephen and Empress Matilda
It is the year 1138 CE. The clouds have burst. Open hostilities between Empress Matilda, the daughter of King Hen...
07 Aug
The Anarchy: Civil War in England, Part 2: A Crumbling Kingdom
The board is set. The pieces are moving. The Anarchy is going to descend upon England. In our first part, we imme...
31 Jul
The Anarchy: Civil War In England, Part 1: The Wreck Of The White Ship
High Medieval England was a particularly violent and unsettled place, in a violent and unsettled time. The seizur...
24 Jul
How Long is a Longsword?
It sounds like a rhetorical question, like ‘How long is a piece of string?’ or ‘How many angels can dance on the ...
