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How to care for your sword like a Victorian trooper

Yesterday, I explored a few French sources telling us how to clean and care for swords. Now let’s look at…

How to care for your sword like a Napoleonic soldier

A few rules on how to care for your sword like a member of the Old Guard.

Men in white: The history of the fencing uniform

Olympic fencing is white, HEMA is black…but what was it historically?

Masiello’s sword exercise and the medical profession

In 1895, the British army released a new sword exercise for the use of its officers, which had been in…

Inflamed with authority: The knife fighting of the Argentinian Gaucho

Continuing in my presentation of knife fighting traditions, I found these two detailed descriptions of Argentinian Gaucho dagger fencing from the…

Practiced with knives: Italian knife fighting in New York

Monday, October 3, 1904 Watertown Daily Times Fencing bouts indulged in by Italians with blunt weapons Man Suspected of Baddato’s (sic)…

The Broad Swordsman’s Pocket Companion

A small colored booklet on broadsword fencing published in 1830 by Capt. Frederick Wroughton.

Keyboard warriors: Martial arts in the age of participatory culture

What makes HEMA truly unique in the martial arts world is how it is community driven.

Bataireacht in an Australian dinner

A newspaper article about an Irish man defending himself with a shillelagh in 1930s Australia.

How to disturb a man’s philosophy: Instruction in singlestick

An 1845 method of singlestick based on Walker.

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