Kay Smith

Spent the last 40 years researching and publishing on artillery and gunpowder before 1600

[Ruth Brown @Basiliscoe]

#AdventCalendar6 #FantasticBeasts & where to find them on
#cannon: Today a #in 1541 unicorn, on a gun cast for Guidobaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino by one of the Alberghetti family. #Torino

[HE Heritage Crime @HeritageCrime]

NEWS - Cannons taken from the #wreck of 'The London' repatriated to the town of #Southend @HE_Maritime @MCA_media @EssexPoliceUK @kent_police @kentheritage @HistoricEngland https://t.co/ryMikPqRGo

[Dr Dan Spencer @GunpowderDan]

The gatehouse of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

@PeterReavill @LadySaltpetre Thanks - amazing - I grew up just near Saffron Walden and don't remember this. And I didn't learn the piano either so missed out twice over

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

The latest Basiliscoe Mercury - the newsletter for the arms and armour community, just went online
https://t.co/bCHMtRSJDY

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

The new issue of the ICOMAM Magazine is now online and ready to download. https://t.co/eSuX7liuyO

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

To Belvoir Castle for launch of new book, Resolution, and to see the 7 Berenger guns, cast in 1756, and to see them being fired.

[Peter Reavill (officially marvellous) @PeterReavill]

Lovely to see @LadySaltpetre earlier at the launch of the #Shropshire #museum arms & armour exhibition & catalogue. So sorry couldn't stay

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

Rockin' doodle in a 15th-c medieval manuscript.

BL Sloane 554 f 53 (Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy)

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

Florence Nightingale's 'rubbish' amulets to go on display for first time https://t.co/671NWFZccp

[sasha ward @sashawardglass]

From St. George's Kelmscott, late C14th #stainedglass, church remains beautifully plain thanks to WM @KelmscottManor #stgeorgesday

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

Wortley Top Forge in the glorious spring sunshine during a field trip with the Wealden Iron Research Group (WIRG)

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

@TowtonOfficial Would you like something on the development of medieval gunpowder and incendiary devices?

[Ruth Brown @Basiliscoe]

Thinking about lances; this knight in @FitzMuseum_UK makes the point (geddit?) about both length and difficulty in controlling it.

[Ruth Brown @Basiliscoe]

Enjoyed our visit to the newly revamped National Army Museum @NAM_London in Chelsea this week. Hard to recognize the building now!

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

Finally, our catalogue, Arms and Armour in Shropshire Museums, is finished and copies delivered.

[Armourers & Brasiers @ArmourerBrasier]

Great news from @SwanseaUni about our 2016 Venture Prize winner Patrick Dodds of @hexigone_ltd. Congratulations! https://t.co/qSpfSJsR4F

[Kay Smith @GunpowderGal]

Morning spent at press preview of new @NAM_London. Impressed by the new displays - thought provoking and stimulating - well worth a visit

[War History Online @WarHistoryOL]

Officers of the 69th New York Volunteer Regiment pose with a cannon at Fort Corcoran in 1861. Colorized by Jecinci