Ambassadors and arms dealers in sixteenth-century Italy
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The National Archives Bessant Drive, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU
In this talk, Dr Catherine Fletcher will explore the exponential rise in the production, sale and ownership of handguns in the first half of the sixteenth century. From a plot to smuggle gunpowder into Siena in wine barrels, to gun-toting Lutheran women in the Italian hills, this talk explores the challenge handguns posed for international relations.

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