This page last updated February 4, 2001
Besides the other pages that can be accessed through the All The King's
Men Webring I have found many useful and interesting sites
relating to the period 1550-1650.
I have separated these into the following categories:
E-zines Merchants,
Miscellaneous, Museums,
Online Documents, Organisations
TOP OF PAGE
E-zines
The Moderne
Aviso Dedicated
to America during the "founding age". Basically pre-revolutionary
America. Now an archive of the issues published up to July, 1997
TOP OF PAGE
Merchants
Gaukler Medieval
Wares A personal
friend. He was made a Laurel in the SCA for his accurate jewellery
and has sold some of his work to Disney.
G. Gedney Godwin
17thC.
Items are grouped on a separate page but the rest of the catalogue
has lots of useful stuff as well.
Julia Smith Historic
Reproductions Reproductions
of colonial era pottery. Looks fantastic and was used in productions
like The Crucible.
James Townsend and Sons
A revolutionary war supplier
but with lots of goodies for earlier periods.
Syke's Sutlery
Supplies primarily
17thC. goods including muskets.
TENTSMITHS
Reproductions
of period tentage. The examples I have inspected are of excellent
quality.
TOP OF PAGE
Miscellaneous
17th
Century Reenacting Resources An
excellent collection of links and resources.
Elizabethan
Commonplaces for Writers, Actors, and Re-enactors A
Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1558-1603.
The Elizabethan
Costuming Page Lots
and lots of articles on costuming for men and women of the period.
Imago Mundi
Journal of the
history of cartography. Not much to the site but if you can get
access to a library that subscribes it is worth a look.
Shakespeares Globe
The reconstructed Globe
theater on the south bank of the Thames in London.
Victoria
Shakespeare Festival Runs
July - August in the inner harbour of Victoria,
BC.
TOP OF PAGE
Museums
Fortress
of Louisbourg Canadian
National Park where a "Vauban" fortress is brought to
life. Out of period but using the same design principles as in
period.
The
Geometry of War 1500 - 1750 from
the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University.
The
Gunpowder Plot Guy
Fawkes and the plot to blow up Parliament and the King.
Imperial
Austria Treasures
of art, arms and armour from the state of Styria. An exhibition
at the Canadian Museum of Civilisation.
Jamestown Rediscovery
Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities is working to preserve the site of the
Jamestown colony of 1607.
The Mary Rose, England
Museum dedicated to the remains
of Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose.
Plimoth
Plantation Reconstruction
of an early 17thC. settlement in New England.
The
Silverbank - National Geographic Society Online
article about a period ship.
The VASA
Museum, Sweden Dedicated
to the ship that sank minutes into her voyage preserving the ship
and many artifacts from c. 1630
TOP OF PAGE
Online Documents
Caleb
Johnsons Mayflower Web Page Intended
for genealogists, it includes many interesting documents relating
to the Mayflower "plantation"
Rowner Parish,1642
Information on Rowner
parish near Portsmouth, Southern England in 1642
Thomas
Hariot's Virginia An
archive edition of Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report
of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588/1590)
Treaty
of Westphalia The
text of the treaty which ended the Thirty Years war.
Various
Military Documents Samples
of military documents from Elizabeth's Army, by C.G. Cruickshank,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966.
TOP OF PAGE
Organisations
The
Army of Gustavus II Adolphus 17th
Century Swedish army reenacting
The English
Civil War Society This
site links to many other sites as the ECWS is a group of regiments
which seem very independent of each other from over here in Canada.
c. 1625 Society
A new group here in
BC (in Burnaby) trying to do English living history using an Oxfordshire
village as a focus.
Pacific Association
for Recreating the Middle Ages I
am one of the founding members of PARMA. We are a group dedicated
to accuracy and supporting scholarship.
Le Poulet Gauche
An SCA household in the Eastern
U.S. trying to do living history using a tavern in 16thC. Calais
as the focus. A lot of depth to this site.
The Sealed Knot
One of the original reenactment
societies in England.
St. Giles College
(University
of Victoria Medieval Club) in Victoria,
BC. which is an affiliate of the Northern
Region (BC and N. WA) of the Kingdom
of An Tir, a part of the Society
for Creative Anachronism.
St. Maries
Citty Militia A
reenactment society focusing on 17th Century Maryland.
The
Trading Party Portraying
traders and customers of early colonial America, particularly
Virginia.
Trayned Bandes of London [Currently offline?!?!?!?!?!]
Elizabethan and early Stuart living history includes : Tattershall
Trayned Band
MAIN
PAGE | ARTICLES | BOOKSTORE | DOCUMENTS
| LINKS
