Charles John ffoulkes was a British

United Kingdom

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 historian

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, and curator

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 of the Royal Armouries

Royal Armouries

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 at London

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. He wrote extensively on medieval arms

Weapon

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 and armour

Armour

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ffoulkes was selected as the Curator of the Armouries by his predecessor, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, and assumed the office on 1 January 1913.

He played an important role in the British Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts movement

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, and was an acquaintance of William Morris

William Morris

William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

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His wife was ghostwriter Maude Mary Chester ffoulkes.

Published works

• (1909) Armour and Weapons, Oxford: Clarendon Press; republished by Westholme Publishing 2005 ISBN 1594160228
• (1912) The Armourer and His Craft, London: Methuen; republished by Dover, 1988 ISBN 0486258513
• (1930). The 'Dardanelles' Gun at the Tower.