Armouries

He asked staff at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to walk and run on a treadmill while wearing different types of armour.

Heavy armour would have exhausted the French at Agincourt, say scientists 2011

Britain's Royal Armouries have launched their "No To Knives" campaign to stop knife-crime in the UK.

Boing Boing 2007

The Armouries' senior curator of armour, Karen Watts, yesterday likened Froissart to a "tabloid hack" who spent his time in bars with old soldiers who fought at battles such as Crecy, where a smaller English army's superior weapons and tactics beat a much larger French force.

Royal Armouries in Leeds holds Froissart exhibit 2007

The Armouries' senior curator of armour, Karen Watts, yesterday likened Froissart to a "tabloid hack" who spent his time in bars with old soldiers who fought at battles such as Crecy, where a smaller English army's superior weapons and tactics beat a much larger French force.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

The New Armouries at the Tower of London: This historical site has hosted kings, dissidents -- and beheadings.

SEATS OF POWER 2007

And when the doors of the Armouries opened on a midsummer noon of August 1914, and the first men of the First Contingent marched out and down the Avenue on their way to Camp, the most vital figure on the crowded thoroughfare was Allward's young Canada – looking out into the distance, hearing the first footsteps go by to the awful war, knowing that there would be increasing footsteps to follow.

Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

The South African Memorial by Walter Allward, the Toronto sculptor, stands on University Avenue, just south of the Armouries.

Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

My brother was a militiaman, and I kept pace with him as his regiment marched from the Armouries to attack the City Hall.

Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers Various 1918

In England the disuse of armour seems to have begun earlier than on the Continent, but at no time were the ordinary soldiers covered with metal as seen in Armouries and other places.

Authorised Guide to the Tower of London W. J. Loftie 1875

In connection with the Armouries, it should be noted that the present collection of arms and armour had its origin in that formed at Greenwich by King Henry VIII, who received many presents of this nature from the

Authorised Guide to the Tower of London W. J. Loftie 1875