KENT POLICE INDEPENDENT ARCHERY CLUB

Winter 2025 /2026


“Life is like an arrow, the farther back you’re pulled, the farther forward you will end up.”

Sir Roger Ascham – Instructed Queen Elizabeth I in the art of archery – and is often referred to as the Grandfather of Archery – Toxophilus is a book about longbow archery written by him, and first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English.

