The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's national collection of arms and armour. Once an important part of England's military organization,it became the United Kingdom's oldest museum,and one of the oldest museums in the world. It is also one of the largest collections of arms and armour in the world,comprising the UK's National Collection of Arms and Armour,National Artillery Collection,and National Firearms Collection. Originally housed in the Tower of London from the 15th century,today the collection is split across three sites:the Tower,the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds,and Fort Nelson near Portsmouth
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is an English medieval historian. She is an authority on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD,who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political,cultural,intellectual,religious,and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge.
Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones is a British art historian,numismatist and museum director. He was Master of St Cross College,Oxford,from 2011-2016. Previously,from 2001 to 2011,he was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sarah Rosamund Irvine Foot is an English Anglican priest and early medieval historian,currently serving as Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford.
John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph,was a British archaeologist,geologist and Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran who pioneered the use of aerial photography as a method of archaeological research in Britain and Ireland. He was Professor of Aerial Photographic Studies at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1980.
William David Hamilton Sellar,MVO,FRHistS,FSA (Scot),FRHSC (Hon) served as Lord Lyon King of Arms from 2008 to 2014. He was married,with three adult sons and a step-son.
Peter Spufford,was a British historian and academic,specialising in the economics of Medieval Europe. He was Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Cambridge.
Margaret Evelyn Buxton,known by her first married name Margaret Aston,was a British historian and academic specialising in the Late Medieval Period and ecclesiastical history. During her career,she lectured at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
Rose Graham was a British religious historian.
Guy Murray Wilson,is a British military historian,curator,and museum director. From 1988 to 2002,he was Master of the Armouries and head of the Royal Armouries,the United Kingdom's national museum for arms and armour.
Julia Steuart Barrow,is an English historian and academic,who specialises in medieval and ecclesiastical history. Since 2012,she has been Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and previously served (2012–16) as the Director of the University's Institute for Medieval Studies.
Claude Blair,was a British museum curator and scholar,who specialised in European arms and armour. He is particularly known for his book European Armour:circa 1066 to circa 1700 (1958). He worked in the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London from 1951 to 1956,before moving to the Department of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum,where he remained until his retirement as Keeper of Metalwork in 1982. He was active in church conservation,and served as a Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 1990 to 1993.
Lesley Jane Abrams,is a retired academic historian. She was a Colyer-Ferguson Fellow of Balliol College,Oxford,between 2000 and 2016,and Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2016.
David Edward Luscombe was a British medievalist. He was professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Sheffield. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1986. He was also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was the joint editor of volume four of The New Cambridge Medieval History.
Mary Teresa Josephine Webber,is a British palaeographer,medievalist,and academic. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge since 1997 and Professor of Palaeography at the Faculty of History,University of Cambridge since 2018. Webber studied Modern History as an undergraduate at Somerville College,Oxford.
Victor Watts,was a British toponymist,medievalist,translator,and academic,specialising in English place names. He served as Master of Grey College,Durham from 1989 until his sudden death in 2002. He had been a lecturer in English at Durham University from 1962,honorary director of the English Place-Name Survey from 1993,and editor of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society from 1996.
Tom Oliver Licence FSA,FRHistS,is a British historian specialising in the period 950–1200,with an additional interest in Victorian consumer waste. He is Professor of Medieval History and Consumer Culture at the University of East Anglia and director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies.
Susan Marian Oosthuizen is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in examining the origins and development of early medieval and medieval landscapes,and in the evolution of systems of governance.
Andrew Michael Burnett,is a British numismatist and museum curator,who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013,and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 to 2003. He was president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013 to 2018.
Ann Julia Kettle is a historian and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
