Keeper of Tower Armouries @Royal_Armouries at the Tower of London, museum curator, art historian, military historian & Londoner. Views are all my own.
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26 Jul 2025
There is only one more week to admire this stunning sword on display at the Tower of London, in collaboration with @UkraineWow
18 Jul 2025
We're proud to be displaying this 17th century sabre belonging to Hetman Mazepa in the Tower of London until the 3rd August, in collaboration with @UkraineWow .
The sabre is inscribed 'All my hope I put in you', reflecting the strength and resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of tyranny.
#royalarmouries #ukraine #mazepa #toweroflondon
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26 Mar 2025
What an amazing artwork this is! ‘Sissy’s helmet’ by Bill Radford and the fabulous Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles . I would love to see it alongside the horned helmet in @Royal_Armouries
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28 Mar 2025
I should say that this is on display @WallaceMuseum in the fabulous exhibition ‘Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur’
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26 Feb 2025
If I won the lottery then I would certainly buy one of these. Abram Games’s work is stunning. His motto says it all - ‘Maximum meaning, minimum means’
26 Feb 2025
This Saturday we'll be listing a group of hand signed, original, wartime posters by the great Abram Games, as part of our new Protest & Propaganda Posters newsletter and instore show. These posters come direct from the Games Estate and are in excellent condition. Includes the very rare Double Crown version of 'Salute the Soldier' and 'Army. The Worthwhile Job' (in this critic's view, Games' best wartime poster)
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23 Jan 2025
Loving these gorgeous stamps. Which is your favourite? 🤔
23 Jan 2025
Dive into the world of knights, kings, and warriors with the Royal Armouries stamps! Order yours today 🛡️ 👉 ms.spr.ly/6016U8ngO
The Royal Armouries stamp set showcases treasures from one of the world’s greatest collections of arms and armour.
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11 Jan 2025
This fabulous little chap with his wonderful moustache has been on display @Royal_Armouries Tower of London for over 220 years. However, we are unsure of his origins. Could he be from a German clock? This week he was lightly dusted as part of our Tower Spring Clean 🧹
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Emma Mawdsley retweeted
12 Dec 2024
Don't miss 'Inside the Tower' on @channel5tv19214 tonight at 8pm, where our Keeper of the Tower Armouries, Emma Mawdsley, will be talking all things Henry VIII at the @TowerOfLondon
This iconic armour was loaned to the @NPGLondon over the summer, allowing us a rare close up look.
#royalarmouries #history #henryviii #tudor #armour #toweroflondon #museum
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1 Dec 2024
It is a cracking Christmas @BatterseaPwrStn with Wallace & Gromit this year🎄🎄🐾
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27 Nov 2024
Today, this lovely painting by David Wilkie Wynfield of the arrest of Anne Boleyn went on display @Royal_Armouries @TowerOfLondon. The setting for this scene was a room @hevercastle but Anne was enjoying a tennis match at Greenwich when she was arrested.
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21 Nov 2024
The countdown has begun. I haven’t seen it yet, so I am just a little bit nervous …
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20 Nov 2024
Times have changed since you could ‘try out’ the execution block for size @TowerOfLondon! A new series of Channel 5’s ‘Inside the Tower’ starts tomorrow, featuring some chilling objects in @Royal_Armouries collection in the White Tower
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14 Nov 2024
From one royal palace to another - the Grinling Gibbons horse in @Royal_Armouries returns from its summer holiday in @CVersailles next week. It will be lovely to have him back in the Tower of London.
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13 Nov 2024
A 4-year reminder came up on another digital platform today - Happy Birthday @CraftyCurator & @museum_owl. Even a global pandemic didn’t prevent us curators from celebrating 🎉
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10 Nov 2024
It is great when museums lend to each other and you can examine works in a different context. The @MuseeLouvre borrowed Henry VIII’s horned helmet by Konrad Seusenhofer from @Royal_Armouries & also this 16th century study of a jester carrying similar spectacles 🤓
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9 Nov 2024
Proud mum today - watching my eldest stand guard at the Cenotaph with his school CCF. The War Widows’ Association parade is always very moving. We Will Remember Them #Remembrance
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3 Nov 2024
My ancient Electrolux floor polisher died today after over 5 decades of faithful use. I can’t say that I ever looked at my mother like this when she used it though #DomesticBliss
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1 Nov 2024
Visiting St Peter’s Basilica today, on All Hallows, I was chilled by the winged figure of death below the sculpture of Pope Alexander VII. It was Bernini’s last major sculpture commission and one of his most memorable.
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31 Oct 2024
Every time that I come across this mummified cat in @Royal_Armouries stores @TowerOfLondon I shudder! #Halloween royalarmouries.org/collectio…
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30 Oct 2024
I totally agree with this policy at the Colosseum in Rome. Modern graffiti on ancient monuments should have serious consequences for the perpetrators.
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Emma Mawdsley retweeted
28 Oct 2024
@CuratorEmma & @kejamieson_ Here's the little robinet cast for Prince Henry in 1604 by Thomas Pitt, #Tower gunfounder, recovered from HMS Association and now in the Scillies. It was for Henry's ship the Disdain, gift of the Earl of Nottingham.
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