How To Find Your Way Around Shakespeare’s London Back in the day before satnav and google maps were a thing, a printed map was the best option for finding your way around London. One of the earliest printed maps of city, the Civitas Londinum, was first produced some time in the early 1560’s and then… Continue reading How To Find Your Way Around Shakespeare’s London
Fact or Fiction? The English Masters Of Defence The English Masters of Defence were very much a real and influential organisation in the Tudor and early Stuart era. Prior to 1645 England did not have a standing army of professional soldiers but relied on “voluntary” enlistment when a fighting force was required. Hence it was… Continue reading FACT OR FICTION? – THE ENGLISH MASTERS OF DEFENCE
Whitefriars Fencing School So what did a Shakespearean era fencing school look like? The short answer is, no one really knows, though perhaps a little like this one. This wonderful print, from an engraving by Jan Cornelius Woudanus, illustrates the fencing school at the University of Lieden in Holland in 1610. Although the fencing master… Continue reading WHITEFRIARS FENCING SCHOOL
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