There will be no meeting in August. Meetings will restart in September.

• 7th September 2023.Tower/Hybrid. David Williams, David Harding and Peter Scott-Edeson, ‘Henry Nock, gunmaker and engineer, his life (1741-1804) and successors’. This will be presented by David Williams and David Harding will also be present to take questions.

• 5th October 2023. Zoom. Special AGM. Short talk. Nic Jenzen-Jones, ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe: daggers and pistols concealed as tobacco pipes’

• 2nd November 2023. Zoom. Sean Manning, “Linen Armour in Latin Christendom, 1100-1350”.

• 7th December 2023. Tower/Hybrid. Tobias Capwell, 2022 Research Medal presentation and talk ‘Armed in Alabaster: Monumental Effigies and the Study of Late Medieval Armour’