*wibble*
I might be trying to make it london-wards on February the 19th, for and arms and armour conference in the Wallace collection.
presentations include...
John Blair, Queens College, University of Oxford:‘Claude Blair as a Scholar: a View from the Main Beneficiary’
Ralph Moffat, Glasgow Museums: ‘Armour pur les ioustes: The Development of Specialised Armour for Jousting’
Marian Campbell, Victoria and Albert Museum: ‘Stories of an Anarchist: Unmasking Louis Marcy with Claude Blair’
Tobias Capwell, Wallace Collection: ‘Italian Armour in Fifteenth-Century England: The Sculptural and Documentary Evidence and its Significance to the Study of Domestic English Armour-making’
Ian Eaves, Consultant: ‘The Hirnheim Armour: Its Place in the Evolution of the mid-Sixteenth-Century Augsburg Garniture’
Stuart Pyhrr, Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘Sir Richard Wallace’s “Lost” Armour’
Donald LaRocca, Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘An English Cross Hilt Sword of the Early Seventeenth Century’
Tony North, Victoria and Albert Museum (ret.): ‘The Cut-Steel Wares of Woodstock’
Squee.
On grounds it starts pretty early and runs till 9pm, are there any london types who I could possibly arrange crash-space with on the nights of Friday the 18th, and Sat 19th?