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SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS
Archery GB
The governing body for the sport of archery in the UK.
The British Long-Bow Society
‘…founded in 1951 for the specific purpose of perpetuating the traditions associated with the recreational longbow’.
The Craft Guild of Traditional Bowyers & Fletchers including Arrowsmiths & Stringmakers
‘…formed in 1987 by Mr Hugh Soar, Secretary at that time of the British Long-bow Society, who brought together a group of craftsmen capable of making longbows and arrows of high quality and superior performance…’
International Longbow Archers Association (I. L. A. A)
‘…seeks to lower the threshold of entry into the sport of longbow archery and to assist the safe organisation of insured traditional longbow shooting.’
The Royal Toxophilite Society
One of the oldest archery societies in Great Britain.
The Society of Archer-Antiquaries
‘Formed in 1956, and recognised as a Learned Society, the S.A.A welcomes all those whose interests lie in the study of the bow and arrow and their use, from earliest times to the present day, in all parts of the world, including its social aspects and its place in history’.
