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1. War Gallery
The War gallery is on the second and third floor of the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds. It presents the development of weapons and the art of warfare from early history to World War II and beyond.
2. Early Warfare
Early War covers the period from ancient Greeks and Romans to Early Middle Ages, just after the fall of the Roman Empire.
3. Medieval Warfare
This gallery is about the arms and armour of the Middle Ages up to about 1400.
4. 16th Century
16th century War gallery at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.
5. 17th Century
17th century War gallery at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.
6. 18th Century
18th century War gallery at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.
7. 19th Century
19th century War gallery at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.
8. Key Stage 3: Discover World War I
History will be brought to life as students examine the realities of the horrors of trench warfare and life as a soldier on the front line during the First World War. Examine real and replica objects of the British Tommy and German soldier.
9. Teachers notes: Littlecote House
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
10. Task 1: Exploration of Littlecote House
Task 1: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
11. Task 2: Inside Littlecote House
Task 2: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
12. Task 3 Popham portrait
Task 3: Popham portrait.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
13. Task 4 Change over time
Task 4: Change over time.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
14. Curriculum links: Littlecote House
Curriculum links: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
15. Resources: Exploration of Littlecote House
Resources: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
16. Littlecote House
This gallery explores details of a landscape painting of Littlecote House, revealing interesting features and hidden meanings.
17. Great Hall in Littlecote House
Littlecote House was home to the greatest surviving English Civil Wars armoury. Explore the photograph of the Great Hall and learn more about the arms and armour.
18. Colonel Alexander Popham
Colonel Alexander Popham was commander in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil Wars. He was also the owner of Littlecote House, which was an armoury and garrison.
19. Peace - Farewell to Arms?
Farewell to Arms? has been created in conjunction with The Peace Museum, Bradford. It focuses on the idea of CONVERSION – from war to peace, from weapons and armour to useful tools or symbolic images.
20. World War I & II Carved Panels
The West Riding Woodcarvers Association have created 95 original hand-carved wooden panels on the themes of the First and Second World Wars, in a projected funded in part by the Leeds Community Foundation.
21. Surviving the Peace: A photographic journey from conflict to recovery
New photographic exhibition by the Mines Advisory Group
22. The Hundred Years War: A Century of Conflict Re-evaluated
Date: Saturday 29 September 2012
Venue: Tower of London
Bringing together some of the principal historians of the 14th and 15th centuries this conference will offer fresh new insights into our traditional interpretation of the conflict.
19 Events
1. Armoured Assault
Active young visitors can have a go of our junior assault course. Feel the ground shake as our 26-tonne Sexton is put through its paces!
2. Armoured Assault
Active young visitors can have a go of our junior assault course. Feel the ground shake as our 26-tonne Sexton is put through its paces!
3. Armoured Assault
For active younger visitors, why not have a go at our junior assault course, plus, feel the ground tremble as our 26-tonne Sexton Self Propelled Gun is put through its paces!
4. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
5. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
6. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
7. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
8. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
9. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
10. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
11. Only Water Between
Only Water Between is a unique, moving and true story of love, life and loss.
12. We Shall Remember Them
Explore the roles of young men and women from World War One to present day.
13. Blitz Weekend
70 years on from one of the darkest and most heroic times in the nation’s history we celebrate the spirit of the age through 1940s music, food and dance.
14. Iconic weapons: from the longbow to the Luger
This seminar examines the impact of weapons developed which changed the nature of warfare.From the English longbow, to the wheellock, to the self-loading pistol and machine gun.
15. European swords and daggers: Medieval to Modern
This seminar will give an overview of the development of swords and daggers.
16. The Wars of the Roses: Society at War in the 15th Century
This conference has now SOLD OUT.
17. Towton 1461
A weekend of events to commemorate the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses.
18. Iconic Weapons II: From the Axe to the AK
Iconic weapons seminar.
19. The Hundred Years War: A Century of Conflict Re-evaluated
Bringing together some of the principal historians of the 14th and 15th centuries this conference will offer fresh new insights into our traditional interpretation of the Hundred Years’ War.
3 Press Releases
1. Lest we forget! Fort Nelson honours Britain’s war dead
Fort Nelson will ring to the sound of a gun salute to mark Remembrance Sunday on November 8 and also the 91st anniversary of Armistice Day on Wednesday, 11th November.
2. Prescription for last prisoner executed at the Tower of London forms part of successful Royal Armouries’ auction bid
Britain’s oldest museum has bought four fascinating new exhibits – including sedative prescriptions made out to the last prisoner executed at the Tower of London and also to Hitler’s deputy Rudolph Hess.
3. Preventing Genocide
Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley – Director General and Master of the Armouries – has delivered a keynote speech examining the role of military leadership in preventing mass atrocities.