This ‘How To:’ series is aimed at the general reader or an individual wishing to portray a Roman legionary or auxiliary as accurately as...

This ‘How To:’ series is aimed at the general reader or an individual wishing to portray a Roman legionary or auxiliary as accurately as...

Where to start? If we accept that Rome was founded in 753 BC and that the eastern half of the Empire did not collapse until...

This ‘How To:' guide is a follow up on a previous one aimed at readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective ancient Greek costume....

This ‘How to:’ guide is a follow up on a previous post aimed at readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective historical costume. The...

Continuing the series 'Ludi', and following on from ancient Egypt, here are selection of games played by ancient Greeks and Romans. Pente...

Senet is one of the oldest games in the world and may be the ancestor of modern backgammon. The oldest known representation of Senet is a...

Aseb is the Egyptian version of the ancient Middle Eastern game called ‘The Game of 20 Squares’. Aseb is related to the ‘Royal Game of...

Mehen is an ancient Egyptian game references to which have been found already in the predynastic period before 3100 BC. The gameboard is...

The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the ‘Game of Twenty Squares’, is a two-player strategy race board game first played in ancient...

We think it is great for children to dress up but many of the products for sale are, to the trained eye, rather dubious. What follows is...

The Gunners' Equipment In Part One, where we established the background to building our replica cannon. In describing the firing drills...

This 'How to' guide is for those readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective historical costume. It is primarily aimed at teachers...

Projectiles In Parts One, Two and Three of this 'How to:' series we established the background to and how we went about building our...

The Gun Carriage In Part Two we looked at seven steps to building a barrel for a replica naval gun that was both lightweight and...

The Gun Barrel The core element, the cannon's barrel, is so named because the earliest guns were constructed with iron staves bound...

The Background History Part One of this series begins with a very brief look at the history of a typical naval gun in use with the Royal...

Circular reporting is where a piece of information appears to come from numerous sources, but in reality is derived from only a single...

In Assessing Information Part One, we looked at how the reliability of sources and the credibility of information can be graded to give...

In our first "Intelligencer's Guide" we considered the six questions to ask when investigating any subject. Continually asking "Who?",...