Meeting Programme

The Society holds monthly online meetings and quarterly hybrid face-to-face/online meetings in London, with a break in August. Meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of the month. The Society also holds other meetings occasionally.

Details of these meetings and how to join them are circulated to members by email.

Meetings for 2026

  • 8th January 2026. Online only meeting.

‘What did you get/buy yourself for Christmas?’ Show and Tell; Show and Ask – Society Members.

  • 5th February 2026, Online only meeting.

‘Introducing Count Claudio Calandra and his collection of early firearms’ – Brian Godwin.

  • 5th March 2026, Tower/hybrid.

‘How Armour Was Made’ – David Edge.

  • 2nd April 2026, Online only meeting,

‘Top Brass. Craft, Technology and Representation of Arms and Armour in the Schwarze Mander statues at Maximilian I Cenotaph in Innsbruck.’ – Marc Gener-Moret.

  • 7th May 2026, Online only meeting.
Annual General Meeting and Special General Meeting.
  • 4th June 2026, Tower/hybrid.
‘Spy, Traitor or Faithful Servant, the London Civil War Gunmaker’ – Natalie Lejeune.
  • 2nd July 2026, Online only meeting,
Show and Tell; Show and Ask.
  • 6th August 2026. No meeting.
Summer Break.
  • 3rd September 2026, Tower/hybrid.
‘Roman Armour – Ancient and Modern’ – Richard Gibbons.
 
  • 1st October 2026, Online only meeting,
‘A Sallet for the Bundrennen: Jousts at the Court of Maximilian I’ – Keith Dowen.
 
  • 3rd October 2026, Conference, Armourers Hall
Armourers and Brasiers and Arms and Armour Society Joint One Day Conference, ‘New light on old collections’, at Armourers Hall.
 
Costs will be £60 (inc VAT) per person to include teas/coffees and lunch
To book a place please use this form:
https://tinyurl.com/newlightonoldcollections
PLEASE NOTE: Bookings will not be accepted after end-of-day Sunday 27th September.
  • 5th November 2026, Online only meeting,

Two short talks :

‘A brief look at pistol safeties with especial reference to percussion revolver safeties’ – Peter Furze.
 
‘Gunmaking by machine in London: What the 1920 London Small Arms Co Ltd auction reveals’ – David Williams.
 
  • 3rd December 2026, Tower/hybrid.
David Edge, 2025 Research Medal presentation and talk : ‘Research Projects Past, Present and Future?’

 

Meetings for 2027

  • 7th January 2027, Online only meeting,
What did you get/buy yourself for Christmas?
Show and Tell; Show and Ask.

Past Years

2025

  • 2nd January 2025, Zoom (online only meeting).

‘What did you get/buy yourself for Christmas? Show and Tell; Show and Ask?’ – Society members.

  • 6th February 2025, Zoom (online only meeting).

‘Best’ gunmaking 1860-1960 – what do the Woodward Patterns tell us?‘ – David Williams, Nick Harlow and Stephen Grist.

  • 6th March 2025, Tower/Zoom (hybrid meeting).

‘All’antica armour at the Wallace Collection’ – Keith Dowen.

  • 3rd April 2025, Zoom (online only meeting).

‘Indian and Islamic arms and armour from the collection of the late Phillippe Missilier‘ – Runjeet Singh.

  • 1st May 2025, Special event (in-person only).

Armourers Hall, 75th Anniversary Celebration.

  • 5th June 2025, Tower/Zoom (hybrid meeting).

‘Deadly Elegance: the small-sword’ – Maciej Pulaczewski.

  • 3rd July 2025, Zoom (online only meeting). 

Annual General Meeting and Special General Meeting (AGM & SGM). Society members.

  • August 2025. No meeting.

Summer break.

  • 4 September 2025, Tower/Hybrid,

‘David William Witton – The City’s Last Merchant Gunmaker’ – Nick Harlow.

  • 2 October 2025, Online only meeting.

‘The Untold Story of Pinfire in America’ – Aaron Newcomer.

  • 6 November 2025, Online only meeting,

‘Twisting the lion’s tail – Boer rifles of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War’ – Chris Smith.

  • 4 December 2025, Tower/hybrid.

‘Swords and Sword Making in Late Medieval and Early Modern England’ – Jay Maxwell.

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