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.