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 to Three of this "How to:" series we established the background to and how we went about building our scale...

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 portable....

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?",...

Many of us rely on the media to keep us informed. The problem I increasingly find is that much of what we are told or read contains less...

The design of Dionysios of Alexandria’s 'Polybolos' is somewhat unique in the annals of ancient artillery. The very name 'Polybolos' or...