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Tastes Of History
Mar 6, 2023
How To: Dress as a Roman soldier Part Three
This ‘How To:’ series is aimed at the general reader or an individual wishing to portray a Roman legionary or auxiliary as accurately as...
Tastes Of History
Feb 24, 2023
How To: Dress as a Roman soldier Part Two
This ‘How To:’ series is aimed at the general reader or an individual wishing to portray a Roman legionary or auxiliary as accurately as...
Tastes Of History
Jan 23, 2023
How To: Dress as a Roman soldier Part One
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...
Tastes Of History
Jan 17, 2023
How To: Dress as an ancient Roman
This ‘How To:' guide is a follow up on a previous one aimed at readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective ancient Greek costume....
Tastes Of History
Oct 24, 2022
How To: Dress as an ancient Greek
This ‘How to:’ guide is a follow up on a previous post aimed at readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective historical costume. The...
Tastes Of History
Oct 10, 2021
Vaguely 'Historical' Costume
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...
Tastes Of History
Aug 6, 2021
How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Five
The Gunners' Equipment In Part One, where we established the background to building our replica cannon. In describing the firing drills...
Tastes Of History
Jul 7, 2021
How to: Make a simple Egyptian, Greek or Roman costume
This 'How to' guide is for those readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective historical costume. It is primarily aimed at teachers...
Tastes Of History
Jan 19, 2021
How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Four
Projectiles In Parts One, Two and Three of this 'How to:' series we established the background to and how we went about building our...
Tastes Of History
Nov 25, 2020
How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Three
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...
Tastes Of History
Oct 5, 2020
How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Two
The Gun Barrel The core element, the cannon's barrel, is so named because the earliest guns were constructed with iron staves bound...
Tastes Of History
Sep 27, 2020
How to: Build a replica Cannon Part One
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...
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