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Check out our shiny new kit!

January 27, 2019 4:51 pm

Martin, Dmitry, Andrew and Jennie modelling the new GHFS hoodies and t-shirts.

January 11, 2019 3:41 pm

It was Martin’s 50th birthday this week and some of the group came along for the celebrations and to enjoy... View Article

December 24, 2018 11:52 pm

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes everyone from the members of the Glasgow Historical Fencing Society.... View Article

December 16, 2018 8:10 pm

Well done to club member Dmitry for representing us at the Glasgow Hema Open Tournament in December at the Kelvin... View Article

Back again!
In Updates
Now that we’re in Level 2 we can meet outdoors for contact training. So we’re back at the farm and having a lot of fun reminding ourselves of all the stuff we love about training historical fencing. We’ve started with longswords – German longsword is the backbone of our club and a great place to re-start after a break. A couple of the guys have got new messers so there Read More
The Art of Balefire Blades
In Updates
Over lockdown, we took delivery of a beautiful new coffee-table-style sword book from Balefire Blades. If you are familiar with their online presence, you will know that their custom swords come with beautiful stories designed to evoke the history and background of their design. It might seem like a non-functional addition to your sword order, but everybody who loves swords knows there’s more to Read More
We’re back!
In Updates
It’s been a long lockdown and we’re still not training indoors, but thanks to some friends with some farmland on the edge of Glasgow, we managed to get an outdoors training session this weekend. It was great to be back together and hopefully we’ll get a few more training sessions before the winter weather kicks in. Big thanks to Billy and Nicky for letting us visit and for Read More