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- Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:56 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Can you help me with Tudor question please?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6036
Try getting hold of Nicholas Monsarrat's Mater Mariner books - central character cursed from the time of the Armada. In general, I would think that, providing the character doesn't physically age, the rate of change in society would be such that he could adapt to the changes as they happened (like m...
- Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:36 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Silly, strange and stupid questions from the public.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14350
I Spent a good 20 minutes on Sunday, explaining to small child that they didn't have snipers in c17th century Apart from the Earl of Derby's gamekeepers who, armed with "scrued guns" picked of Parliamentarian officers and gunners in the siege lines around Lathom House - seems like a fairly sniper-i...
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:24 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: Kings involved in the invasion of 1066
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8368
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:47 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Silly, strange and stupid questions from the public.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14350
In my other group, if i have to explain that Tommies weren't named after Tommy guns, or hear another person say they've seen our machine guns on Call of Duty, i may scream. Sadly the "standard" stupid questions remain standard for as long as you do the job - I worked for some time on an Iron Age fa...
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Lanark - local press photos
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1481
Lanark - local press photos
I don't think anyone has posted photos from the Lanark event - and I didn't take any as I forgot my camera and was in kit all day anyway! So the local papers phot gallery for the event is at: http://www.photostoday.co.uk/Gallery.aspx?GalleryID=25749 I think my legs appear in one shot (the rest of me...
- Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:06 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Coopering
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4912
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:53 pm
- Forum: 410-1100
- Topic: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12438
I was always worried by Martin Carvers assumption that the main burial is that of Raedwald though. It's such a strange thing for an archaeologist to do - put a name to a burial without more concrete evidence. I don't think it was Martin that came up with that as a suggestion i nthe first place. The...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:27 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 17th century coif
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3790
That's really interesting, M - thank you for that. I'm now tempted to go off and research clothmaking, instead of making kit! :lol: That is the route to madness and despair!! :lol: I looked the info up and typed it while I was supposed to be helping the boss make three pairs of breeches for this we...
- Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 17th century coif
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3790
A slight sideline on the colours - "self coloured" linen - the slightly brownish cream of the unbleached cloth would be how it came off the loom - bleaching involved spreading the cloth in the sun with the use of various bleaching materials - Home's Experiments in Bleaching (1785), quoted in Baines,...
- Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Neil Marshall's Centurion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3727
Dan, by an "event" I meant in the broad sense of a group turning up somewhere to do something. As you say, if its a film, then generally its for entertainment and the accuracy tends to go out the window to a greater or lesser extent (I reckon its partly for selling the film - if you try and sell a f...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:32 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Neil Marshall's Centurion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3727
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:25 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Dover Castle and my new dress!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8897
- Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:07 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Advice Please. Where in the UK?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5156
That is such a general query that its not possible to answer - can you refine your area of visiting a bit more? As a general stab at it - accommoadation - just about everywhere has some decent b&bs - some have more than others and some have a good range. Museums - define a decent museum? We have a s...
- Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:49 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pole weapons
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12050
only two horses and one man were killed Possibly the casualties reported reflected the number of "important" deaths. I don't really know the source or the period but there is a theory that in an earlier age in Italy, low Roman casualties were due partly to propaganda and partly due to the reporting...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:01 am
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Late 17th c groups
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17461
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:36 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Late 17th c groups
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17461
- Thu May 14, 2009 12:53 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Late 17th c groups
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17461
- Tue May 12, 2009 12:47 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Late 17th c groups
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17461
- Fri May 08, 2009 1:11 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Spoon in a hat
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7000
Why is it that wooden spoons are almost as common finds in Europe as wooden bowls but that they are very rare in the UK? maybe, unlike bowls, they broke..........and then they simply chucked 'em in the fire in a desperate attempt to keep warm in the traditional UK wet and windy weather? :lol: That ...
- Fri May 08, 2009 10:36 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Spoon in a hat
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7000
- Thu May 07, 2009 4:45 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Artillery 1100 - 1215
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3690
- Mon May 04, 2009 8:14 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Shelter Deaths
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11259
- Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:53 am
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Shelter Deaths
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11259
As well as the big casualty incidents, there were also casualties in family Anderson shelters - just from the scatter of bombs being dropped over residential areas - some were bound to hit shelters (or land near enough to cause casualties from the concussion) One of my aunt's neighbours (she was eas...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:21 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Shoe study pre 1500
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3905
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:19 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: medieval fishing
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7305
If you are discussing general fishing methods, there are a number of fish traps known from around the coast, dting to the medieval period - basically the remains are shallow v shaped settings of rubble - possibly the base of low dry stone walls - or lines of stakes in the same v-shape layout - proba...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Shoe study pre 1500
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3905
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:11 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Linen Scraps - a universal mystery?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3596
- Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:55 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Linen Scraps - a universal mystery?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3596
- Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Wedding practices >> Chaucer
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4062
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:39 pm
- Forum: 2000BC-55BC
- Topic: Celtic anthropomorphic swords
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16800