london historical fencing club
Welcome to the London Historical Fencing Club (LHFC). We are a historical
European Martial Arts (HEMA) club based in central London, offering classes in
Longsword, Rapier, Sabre, and Smallsword. Fighting with European style swords
and other weapons was, until relatively recently, a lost art. Martial arts that
were used extensively throughout medieval and renaissance Europe gradually died
out over the centuries until they were nearly forgotten. In the last few
decades, practitioners of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), working from
contemporary treatises, have been working to reconstructed these techniques and
principles.
