Links

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Arms and Armour – information and suppliers

• The Armoury Offering a wide range of reproduction armour from Roman to Civil War periods for re-enactment displays or educational purposes
• The Artillery Garden A brief history of matchlock firearms and to give the reader, reenactor, or black powder shooter a list of places from which they may acquire one
• Bandolier for Musketeers Reproduction 17th century bandoliers for black powder muskets, also knitted hats, pitched leather jackware, musket accessories, stockings and inkle braids, costume patterns and military and history books
• Bowstock Ltd Leather and leatherworking tools, books guides and supplies, and hand-made leather goods
• Derbyshire Arms Makers of fine period firearms for the re-enactor, black powder shooter and collector
• Foxblade Trading Manufacturers and suppliers of quality leatherwork and supplies for re-enactors, museums, and TV/film
• Masterarmourer Chris Dobson Restoration, conservation and reproductions form the Former Master Armourer to the Royal Armouries
• The Merchant Venturers Supplier of arms and armour, also glassware, scribe materials, living history equipment, majolica, masks, original artefacts, patterns and pewter
• Re-enactment Supplies Armour, clothing, helmets, musketry supplies, shoes and weaponry
  
• The School of the Sword Based in Sandhurst, Berkshire, the primary goal of the school is the interpretation, teaching and practice of Italian swordplay from c1530 to 1640, with a particular focus on the rapier techniques of Francesco Alfieri and Salvator Fabris. Their secondary goal is to provide educational and entertaining workshops and displays of historically accurate swordplay
• Two Js – Suppliers of Arms Supplier of weapons, leather goods, horn items, nautical items, armour and all sorts of artefacts for the serious re-enactor for the 14th century to the 18th century. Including daggers, knives, forks, spoons, prickers, leatherwork, baldricks, carbine slings, bandolier belts, pistol holsters, baldrics, waistbelts, sword hangers, purses, bags, gauntlets, gloves, horn, lanterns, snapsacs, knapsacs, musketry, powder horns, powder measures, primers, spurs, thonging, helmets, gorgets, bevors, pikeheads, polearms, halberds, partizans, bills, belts, horn cups, horn dice, bone dice, buttons, arrowheads, bodkins, swallowtails, broadheads, swords, nautical, compasses, telescopes, sextants, dividers, proportional dividers, belly bags, cartridge bags and spurs

The Arts

Art

• 17th Century Baroque Fashion
  
• Living History Portraits
  
• David II Teniers the Younger’s Interieur de cabaret; partie de cartes
  
• The Salacious Historian’s Lair
  
• Web Gallery of Art
  
• World Carrot Museum
  

Dancing

• Renaissance Footnotes: Basingstoke Early Dance Group
  
• SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage
  

Poets

• 17th Century Women Poets
  

Music and Musicians

• Internet Renaissance Band
  
• The Waits Website

Battles

Battle of Inverlochy

• Clan Donald: Battle of Inverlochy Clan Donald History's page on the Battle of Inverlochy, February 2, 1645, and about James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and Major General Sir Alexander MacDonald "Alasdair MacColla"
• Electric Scotland: Battle of Inverlochy Electric Scotland's "This Month in Scottish History" for February including the Battle of Inverlochy
  

Battle of Naseby

• Battlefield Britain – Routing the Royals: The Battle of Naseby The 24 Hour Museum trail linked to the BBC series Battlefield Britain

Battle of Worcester

• Electric Scotland – Scottish Regiments at the Battle of Worcester A list showing the Scots who fought at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651 under Leslie, for Charles I against the forces of Oliver Cromwell. These Regiments came from all parts of Scotland and are identified as having been at Worcester

General

• British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60 Time lines, biographies, military history, book list and more
• Moving 17th Century Soldiers Barry Siler's illustrated guide to drill in the 17th century based on Colonel William Barriffe's three works in one volume (Military Discipline: or the Young Artillery-Man, Mars his Triumph, and Some Brief Instructions for the Exercising of the Cavalry, or Horse-Troopes), 1661 ed.
• UK Battlefields Resource Centre Provide information on fields of conflict throughout the United Kingdom. The information provided helps people to explore our battlefields through books, maps and original documents or on the ground; from the earliest of our accurately located battlefields, at Maldon (Essex, 991), right through to Sedgemoor (Somerset, 1685), which was the last battle to be fought on English soil. Currently the Resource Centre only includes English battlefields, however initial work began in late 2004 on a gazetteer of fields of conflict in Scotland

Books, magazines and web resources

Books

• Caliver Books
  
• Early English Books Online
  
• Harlot Publications
  
• Paul Meekins Military and History Books
  
• Shire Publications
  
• The Lion of the North – Swedes and Scots save Germany for the Reformation!!
  

Magazines

• Skirmish Magazine
  

Web Resources

• 17th Century Re-enacting and Living History Resources
  
• Aemilia Lanyer: 17th Century English Woman Poet
  
• British History Online
  
• Call to Arms: International Directory of Historical Re-enactment and Living
  
• GENUKI: Dress and Dress Materials for a 'Serving Maid'. circa 1600
  
• History
  
• Early Stuart Libels
  
• English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
  
• Historical Handfasting
  
• HKUL Electronic Resources: Clothing and Dress
  
• John Speed
  
• Kate’s Corner
  
• Local History Online
  
• Museum of London: Tudor & Stuart:
  
• The Court of Chivalry
  
• Three Letters From The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Fairfax
  
• Time Traveller’s Guide to Stuart England
  

Clothing etc – information

Bags

• Foxblade Trading
  

Buff Coats

• Battlefield Britain – Routing the Royals: The Battle of Naseby
  

Glossaries

• Clothing Definition Database for the Clothing Industry
  
• Footwear of the Middle Ages: Glossary of Footwear Terminology
  
• Hat Dictionary
  
• Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing: The Renaissance Tailor
  
• Whaleys (Bradford) Ltd Textile A-Z
  

Hose and Inklebraid

• Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing: The Renaissance Tailor
  
• Notes on Stockings
  

Jewellery

• The Cheapside Hoard
  
• The Salacious Historian’s Lair: Surviving Jewellery of the 17th Century
  

Lace

• Lacis Products
  
• The Costumer’s Manifesto
  

Petticoats

• How to Cartridge Pleat a Skirt
  

Sewing

• The Crewel Work Company
  

Shoes

• The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
  

Women's Clothing

• Extreme Costuming
  
• The Salacious Historian’s Lair: Baroque Costumes: Costume Focus 1660-1715, Female Headwear and Neckwear Research Gallery
  
• La Couterie Parisienne
  
• The Salacious Historian’s Lair: Baroque Costumes: Costume Focus 1660-1715, Working Women Research Gallery
  
• Women’s Fashions of the 17th Century: Hollar’s Engravings
  

Women's Underclothes

• Early Corsets from Cretan to 17th Century
  

General

• Clothing History
  
• Deliberately Concealed Garments Project
  
• Dorset Buttons
  
• Knitting Together
  
• Making a Monmouth Cap
  
• Manchester City Galleries Costume Collection
  
• Maria Riley: Jackets
  
• Natural Dyes Mailing List
  
• Socknitters
  
• The Costumer’s Manifesto: Mid 17th Century Europe (1630 to 1665ce)
  

Clothing etc– ready made and suppliers

Hat Suppliers

• Kirstie Buckland Quality Caps
  

Jewellery

• Annabel Chaffer - Cheapside Hoard
  

Pattern Suppliers

• Nehelenia Patterns: Authentic Historical Sewing Patterns and Supplies
  
• Paul Meekins: Patterns
  
• Reconstructing History Patterns
  
• The Tudor Costume Page
  

Pewterware Suppliers

• Steve Millingham Pewter Replicas
  

Shoes and Boots Suppliers

• Foxblade Trading
  
• Sarah Juniper Historical Shoes
  

Spectacle Suppliers

• Period Glasses
  

Women's Underclothes Suppliers

• Vena Cava Design: Corset Making Supplies, Components and Corsetry Index
  

General

• Ages of Elegance
  
• Chimera Costumes
  
• Elizabethan Costuming Page
  
• Herts Specialist Fabrics
  
• Jas Townsend & Son, Inc
  
• Maggie’s Period Costumes
• Re-enactment Supplies Armour, clothing, helmets, musketry supplies, shoes and weaponry
  
• Sally Green: Historical Costume & Accessories
  
• Sewing Notions
  
• The Costumer’s Manifesto: 17th Century Costume Links
  
• The Historical Costume Company
  
• The Merchant Venturers
  
• The Renaissance Tailor
  
• Vanessa Treasure Designs
  

Documents

• Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution
  
• Electric Scotland: Signing of the National Covenant
  
• The Cromwell Collection: Huntingdon
  
• The Grand Remonstrance, with the Petition accompanying it
  

Food & Drink - recipes and more

Eating Equipment

• Firemaking with Flint and Steel
  
• Foxblade Trading
  
• HideBound Leather Tankards
  
• The Merchant Venturers
  
• The Turningpoint Studio Whitley Bay
  

General

• Carsten Burkhardt’s Web Project Paeonia: John Parkinson
  
• Garden Organic (HDRA)
  
• Gode Cookery presents 17th Century English Recipes
  
• World Carrot Museum
  

Money & Medals

• Bigbury Mint
  
• Paul Meekins
  

Museums

• English Heritage
  
• National Army Museum
  
• The National Trust
  
• The Wallace Collection
  
• V&A

People

Archibald Campbell

• British Civil Wars: Marquis of Argyll, Archibald Campbell, c1607-61
  

Charles I

• Pauline Gregg: King Charles I
  

James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

• 1st Marquis of Montrose Society
  
• British Civil Wars: Marquis of Montrose, James Graham, 1612-1650
  
• McGonagall Online: The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: A Historical Poem
  
• James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and Major General Sir Alexander MacDonald "Alasdair MacColla"
  

Oliver Cromwell

• The Cromwell Collection, Huntingdon
  

Period Tents

• Past Tents
  

Pipes & Smoking

• Firemaking with Flint and Steel
  
• Pipe Smoking: Women and Pipes
  

Places

• Electric Scotland: Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution
  
• Electric Scotland: Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland (1576 – 1798)
  
• Electric Scotland: Scots in Sweden
  
• Electric Scotland: The Scots in Germany
  
• Leopard Magazine: Lucky Escape for Fyvie’s Bonnie Lass
  

Religions and Related Subjects

Diggers

• English Diggers
  
• The Levellers and The Diggers Index
  
• English Dissenters
  
• English Witch Trials
  
• The Hall of Church History: The Puritans
  

The Sealed Knot

• Sealed Knot
  

Trades - information and suppliers of equipment

• Bowstock Ltd
  
• Gode Cookery presents 17th Century English Recipes
  
• Lacis Products
  
• Sylvan Skills: Willow Garden & Home Furniture, Workshops, Courses & Demonstrations
  
• The Crewel Work Company
  
• Traditional Materials
  
• Vena Cava Design Corset and Costume Component Site