Through this lens, the project explores the broader cultural, social, and political transformations that characterised early twentieth-century Britain. #euguns #eugunssnippets #britishhistory #gunhistory

To reach a global customer base, Fabrique Nationale, the Belgian gunmaker renowned for producing the Browning brand, translated its advertising materials early on outside of Belgium. #euguns #eugunssnippets #europeanhistory #gunhistory

The EU-GUNS project investigates the second life of military rifles and how this seemingly obsolete hardware shaped the relationship between Europeans and guns for decades. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #europeanhistory

And sometimes, archival research yields surprises! This pistol was manufactured and registered in 1911 by the Basque firm Esperanza y Unceta. Known as the “Victoria,” it is an adapted copy of the popular Browning 1906 model. #euguns #eugunssnippets #unipd #dissgea #spanishhistory

...contributing to the transformation of self-defence practices and gun culture. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory
Source: “Lo Sport Italiano” (BNCF, collocaz. P.GIO G.), 15 November 1903, p. 75

Others followed suit in the early twentieth century, including Great Britain and Germany. Here you can see a licence to carry a small handgun in public issued to a German doctor from Berlin in 1927 #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #germanhistory Source: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preuß. Kulturbesitz

In 1912, twin brothers Eric and Vilhelm Carlberg competed in the Olympics in central Stockholm. Today, the shooting range has been converted into a recreational park, but the firing point is still visible as a slight elevation. #euguns #eugunssnippets #swedishhistory #olympichistory #gunhistory

In early 20th-century Britain, middle-class women took up jujitsu, adapted everyday objects like umbrellas into tools of self-defence, but also acquired gun models marketed especially to women. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #britishhistory
Source: A.W. Gamage Ltd.: General Catalogue 1911

Newspaper readers in the 1910s felt they were living in an "age of the revolver", as investigated, for example, by the historian Dominique Kalifa. One of the aims of the EU-GUNS project is to study "the age of the revolver" and its consequences for ordinary people #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory