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Historical Resources, Re-Enactment Societies, Other Items of Interest (magazines, webrings, etc)

Historical Resources

The Mediaeval & Classical Library contains lots of out of copyright texts
The Bayeux Tapestry as a series of GIFs
Scottish Highlands, 1100-1600 CE
The Oseburg Ship includes pictures of reconstructions of the Oseburgh tapestry and other finds.
Medieval Stitches
Medieval Technology Pages
A Chronology of Scottish History
Uniting the Kingdoms - Scotland
Viking Shields
The History of Technology
Medieval Women
Medieval Scotland
Viking Age Dyestuffs
The Viking Homepage
The History Net
Jorvik Viking Centre exhibition recreating a Viking settlement excavated in York.
Black People in the British Isles and Early Northern Europe
Elizabethan Costuming - corsets
Stick Weaving
Current Archaeology Valtos - Brochs
The Journal of Seventeenth Century Music
Women Knights
Women as Warriors Through the Ages
Scottish History
The Scots Language
War, Defence and Aristocracy
'A Shot in Time' - a history of archery.
Art of the Middle Ages
Copper in the Middle Ages
Rural Resistance 1800-1914: Custom, Community and Conflict in South Oxfordshire - an account of attempts to keep common land in England from being taken over for private use.
The Scottish Clearances - essay on the removal of people from the Highlands of Scotland since the 18th Century.
The 1798 Rebellion in County Wexford, Ireland
A Typical Medieval Nef (sea-going ship) circa 1265
History and Archaeology of the Ship - lecture notes from Bangor University.
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe a catalogue of photographs and articles from Oxford University.
Hnefatafl - King's Table a Viking board game
Pictures of replicas of the Lewis Chess Men
The Online Guide to Traditional Games
Norse Games
Music in the Viking age
The Songs of the Vikings
How to Make a Viking Toy Horse
Epact - Medieval and Renaissance Scientific Instruments
Prosthetics History Page
Early Medieval Crafts
Early Medieval Combat
Statistical Accounts of Scotland - Accounts of Scottish life from the 18th and 19th centuries
BBC - Blood of the Vikings
Migrations into Scotland from 1505 onwards - a history of the diverse population of Scotland

Re-Enactment Societies

Lothene Experimental Archaeology - South East Scotland - 6th, 11th and 13th Centuries
The Vikings (formerly the NFPS) - 10th Century Britain
Conquest - Anglo Normans, 1066-1216
Angelcyn - early Saxon England
Theod - early Saxon England
Temesmain Vikings - 10th Century
Rosa Mundi- 15th Century Britain (part of The War of the Roses Federation)
The White Company- 15th Century Britain (part of The War of the Roses Federation)
Shields of the Shattered Isle - Dark Ages, Northern Ireland
Gaddgedlar - 13th and 16th Century Scotland
Perfidious Albion - Edinburgh University Medieval Re-enactment Society - 6th to 16th Centuries
UK Re-enactment webring - UK living history group websites

Other Items of Interest

Call To Arms - magazine with a directory of UK re-enactment groups and traders
Echoes from the Past - reenactment magazine
Alba Cearcall is a ring of websites relating to Scotland.
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a medieval theme recreation group from the USA.
The Kingdom of Drachenwald is the European branch of the SCA, and Harplestane is the Edinburgh SCA group.
Edinburgh Bird of Prey Centre
The Online Scots Dictionary
Lothene's Press Cuttings

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