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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...
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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
- May 9, 2022
Ludi: ancient Greek and Roman games
Continuing the series 'Ludi', and following on from ancient Egypt, here are selection of games played by ancient Greeks and Romans. Pente...
Tastes Of History
- Apr 11, 2022
Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Senet
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...
Tastes Of History
- Mar 14, 2022
Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Aseb
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...
Tastes Of History
- Feb 14, 2022
Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Mehen
Mehen is an ancient Egyptian game references to which have been found already in the predynastic period before 3100 BC. The gameboard is...
Tastes Of History
- Jan 17, 2022
Ludi: ancient Mesopotamian games
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...
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...
Tastes Of History
- Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Circular Reporting
Circular reporting is where a piece of information appears to come from numerous sources, but in reality is derived from only a single...
Tastes Of History
- Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part Two
In Assessing Information Part One, we looked at how the reliability of sources and the credibility of information can be graded to give...
Tastes Of History
- Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part One
In our first "Intelligencer's Guide" we considered the six questions to ask when investigating any subject. Continually asking "Who?",...
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