Peter Smithurst
Peter Smithurst worked for several years at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, where he was a senior curator of firearms and is now retired as Curator Emeritus. He has been elected a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield and is currently working on a large volume on the Enfield rifle and the history of the technology of its manufacture for the Royal Armouries, which will be a definitive work on the subject.