Expert Consultants

The ARMA's Academic Consultants In our continuing effort aimed at aiding the credibility and legitimacy of this subject, the ARMA’s presents it official panel of select consultants. This distinguished list of credentialed academics, historians, and distinguished professional experts in European arms and armor provides us with an unprecedented and unrivaled resource on which to rely on in our studies. Questions for our experts may be directed here to our website.
Dr. Sydney Anglo – ARMA's Senior Advisor. A Fellow of the British Academy, leading historian of historical fencing and author of The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe.			Dr. Lee Jones – Sword Collector, physician, researcher, operator of the Ethnographic Sword Resource site and co-author of The Sword in the Viking Age.
Dr. David Nicolle - a noted authority on medieval arms and armor and warriors and author of the immense two volume, Arms and Armor of the Crusading Era 1050-1350, Warfare in Feudal Europe, and the invaluable Medieval Warfare Source Book. He has written several important titles on Medieval warfare for Osprey.			Dr. Noel Fallows - authority on the military history and literature of Medieval & Renaissance Spain.
David Edge – Reenactor, author, arms curator and conservator, Wallace Collection Museum, London.			Peter Fuller – Master Armorer and Medieval combat reenactor.
Prof. Tom Green – Anthropologist & martial artist. Editor of the World Martial Arts Encyclopedia.			Paul Champaign – Master Swordsmith & researcher rediscovering the techniques & skills of how real blades were actually made.
Prof. Don Kagay – Medieval Military Historian, editor of several books on historical warfare.

Honorary Consultants:
Hank Reinhardt – Long time enthusiast of arms and armor and histrocial combat, founder of Museum Replicas Ltd., and of the orginal HACA (the ARMA's predecessor).
John Waller – Fight Interpreter, choreographer, and leading historical fencing instructor. Head of fight interpretation at the Royal Armouries, and president of the European Historical Combat Guild. See his book here.
Claude Blair - Distinguished Arms Curator and author of leading works on European armor.
Ewart Oakeshott – 1916-2002. Acknowledged sword authority, collector, and author of Sword Authority and author of: The Archaeology of Weapons, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, European Weapons and Armor, A Knight & His Weapons, Sword in Hand. See his books here.
Sir John R. Hale (1923-1999) –Historian of Renaissance and Italian history at University College, London, and author of 5 leading research works on Renaissance warfare and history.
Frederick Wilkinson – Former Arms Curator and author of numerous important books on European arms & armor.