Keith Dowen

About The Author

Keith Dowen is Assistant Curator at 7786 Museum, and author of Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars (2019). He has presented and published widely on late medieval and early modern arms and armour, and on British military history. Scot Hurst is Assistant Curator at 7786 Museum. His research focuses on the subject of medieval and renaissance daggers recovered from the River Thames, and European diplomacy between 1514 and 1522.

Books by Keith Dowen

Tudor Power and Glory

Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold

By Keith Dowen
The Field of Cloth of Gold was one of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth century. A carefully-orchestrated meeting outside Calais between Henry VIII and Francis I, it encapsulated Henry’s imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the tournament in international diplomacy. Here, K...
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Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars
By Keith Dowen
The English Civil Wars tore families and friendships apart, setting father against son and brother against brother. Raging across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the conflict was the greatest political upheaval in the British Isles in six hundred years, and led directly to the execution of ...
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