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The Medieval Siege Society - Largest medieval re-enactment group in the country. |
| The Arriere-Bans - Professional historical interpreters. | |
| Medieval Experience - Fun and educational school visits covering the medieval period. | |
| Tudor Experience - Fun and educational school visits covering the Tudor period. | |
| Company of Saint Barbara - The household of the bombard. Living hisstory group demonstrating medieval guns and gunnery. | |
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House of Bayard web site - The Bayards are a Household in their own right who are members of the MSS. This site includes interviews with members and shows how people get involved in re-enacting and what they get out of it. Well worth a visit. |
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The House Bonivant - The Bonivants are a household within the MSS. They form a knight's company for the Bishop of Rochester. Good info on how a household would have been formed at the time of the Wars of the Roses. |
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Period Crossbows - Robin Knight is a crossbow maker, who specialises in reproduction bows. The bows are suitable for re-enactment, target shooting or museum display. |
| Phil Fraser - Phil is a master merchant who will kit you out with all the gear you need for re-enactment | |
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The Archery Centre - UK based site for re-enactment, field and target archery. Information and shop for all your archery needs. |
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Vosper 4 Coins - Mike Vosper is a coin dealer who has a selection of Medieval English, Scottish and Irish coins for sale. There are pictures of a wide selection of coins. There is also a great deal of information about mints and varieties of coins to be gleaned from this site. |
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Medieval Drama and Music web site - This site has extensive information and links to all aspects of medieval drama and music, with details of costume, scripts, make-up, instruments, dance, etc. There are also useful details about arms and armour. |
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Maisters of Defence - This site is run by Terry Brown, author of English Martial Arts. This is one of the best books on medieval fighting techniques, with styles for Longsword, Bastard sword, Sword and buckler and Bill in various combinations. |
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The Academy of Early Medieval Martial Arts - The mission of the A.E.M.M.A is to ressurect the combat skills, philosophies and principles of an acomplished European Medieval martial artist, and to achieve a state of which would be consistent with that of a 15th centuaryt warrior in both technology and ideal. |
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Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA) - (Formally The Historical Armed Combat Association - HACA) An organisation dedicated to reviving and researching armed combat throughout history. Many useful resources about medieval and renaissance combat. |
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Talhoffer - This is a fencing manual from 1467. There are translations, descriptions and pictures of the original woodcuts. This is a vital resource for anyone interested in medieval combat. (This is one of the HACA's resources) |
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Stefan's Florilegium -
This site is a treasure trove of information. These are messages from the
Rialto (the newsgroup rec.org.sca) grouped by topic. Some are quite rambling,
but there is a wealth of information about virtually every topic. WARNING - This site makes no distinctions from carefully researched information and peoples opinions. |
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The Richard III
Society - Richard III was King of England from 1483 to 1485. Thanks mainly
to Shakespeare, he is known in the popular imagination as being the archetypal
wicked uncle who murdered his way to the throne. In the belief that many of the features of the traditional accounts are not supported by sufficient evidence, the purpose of the Richard III Society is to promote research into his life and times, and thereby secure a reassessment of his reputation and of his place in history. |
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WWW Medieval Resources - This page provides links to mainly academic sources of information, such as archaeology, manuscripts, translations of original texts and history. |
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15th Century female warriors - This site includes details of a number of 15th Century women who fought. This gives a good historical justification for fighting women. |
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Pavilion Resources - This site has lots of information about period tents, pavilions, furniture, camping and cooking. Lots of recipes! |
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Medieval Recipies - Lots of food links and Recipies. Happy Eating! |
