Hello fellow history enthusiasts and blade aficionados, Whether we study historical martial arts or historical weapons, one question continually arises: why were things done this way? The answer may lie partly in movement and partly in craftsmanship. More often than not, however, it emerges from the dialogue between maker and user—a relationship encapsulated in the artefacts of our martial heritage. Watch Cornelius practicing in a new public video The Longpoint Lesson — Hand-Foot Coordination...

Hello fellow history enthusiasts and blade aficionados, questions about historical body proportions come up regularly when discussing historical and prehistoric fighting techniques. Fortunately, archaeology provides some surprisingly clear answers. How tall were Europeans of the Roman era compared with modern people? Were People Smaller in the Past? One widespread assumption is that human body height increased steadily throughout history and that people today are generally taller than our...

Hello fellow history enthusiasts and blade aficionados, sometimes the most interesting discoveries come not from finding something new, but from looking again at familiar things. Here are a few recommendations and updates that I hope you will enjoy. A replica fishtail dagger which I recently got to play with in Harald Meller's office. A Stone Age Misconception? Some ideas become so widespread that they eventually start to feel self-evident. One such example concerns Late Neolithic fishtail...