A brief guide to ancient underwear as part of our How To: Make Historical Costume.

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...

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...