The Longbow Shop Blog — News

We launched our new website back in December 2016 and have been implementing some new ideas and features over the last couple of months. We thought we would give you an overview of them. Custom ordersYou can now order bows, bow making gear, carbon shafts, leather armguards, quivers and any of our arrow ranges with whatever feather colours, nocks etc that you’d like. Take a look and there will be a custom option available.Out of stock notificationIf you find something is out of stock we can now send you an email alert as soon as it comes back in. Just...

The ILAA (International Longbow Archers Association) is for english longbow archers. The ILAA seek to make entry into the sport of longbow archery easier by ensuring the safe organisation of insured traditional longbow shooting. They cover all the aiming and ranging traditions of the english longbow as practised into the 16th Century. We would like to take the opportunity to inform traditional archers and other interested parties of their history. They encourage historic research into the traditional forms of archery in all countries that trained for battle. Members are insured for all the aiming and ranging traditions of the english longbow and for all weights and sections of the...

Robert Hardy visited the Longbow Shop on May 2015 which is a date everyone will remember for a very long time to come and a high point for the UK's largest traditional archery shop based in Birkenhead. The Longbow Shop had the privilege of hosting a day with the legendary actor, author and longbow expert Robert Hardy CBE who enthralled over 100 guests, sharing his amazing experiences and knowledge about longbows and the famous battles they were used in while keeping the enthusiastic crowd of people (archers and non-archers alike) spellbound and hanging on every word. Mr Hardy gave insights...

Since winning Theo Paphitis #SBS Twitter award we've been even busier than usual and the PR machine has certainly been rolling. So far we've been involved with supplying TV for The White Queen, Dr Who (Robots of Sherwood) and new series The Royals made in the US featuring our own Liz Hurley and we were even approached by a production company to supply a bow for an Ed Sheeran music vid! We've had peak airtime on BBC Radio 2 drive time slot plus local radio interviews. On top of our normal retail business we've also managed to launch our new...

The Longbow Shop is now stocking Bickerstaffe Flatbows. This primitive pyramidal design bow gives you all you need from a traditional flat bow. Based on a design roughly 5000 years old this bow is a total dream to shoot just like all Bickerstaffe products. Our experiance of these bows is that they are both fast and consistent to shoot and are proving to be very popular with all our customers. Can be shot right or left handed and is 74 inches tall. Comes with Horn nocks and a double loop flemish fastflight string and a full leather handstitched grip. Please...