by Duncan | Jun 7, 2016 | Society of the Sword, The First Blade of Ostia, The Huntsman's Amulet, The Marcher Lord, The Middle Sea World, The Swordsman of Tanosa, The Tattered Banner, The Telastrian Song, The Wolf of the North
I’ve had a chance to do a little organising over on Pinterest, and have put some photos of buildings and cities into their appropriate categories, if anyone is curious as to what place inspired which city! If you reckon you can connect any of the buildings to...
by Duncan | May 3, 2016 | General, The Middle Sea World, The Tattered Banner, The Wolf of the North
In my continued efforts to keep up with social media, I’ve set up a Pinterest account. I thought it’d be a useful way to share with you some of the images of places, weapons, armour, and clothing that I draw inspiration from to add flavour to the Middle...
by Duncan | Jun 10, 2015 | History
I’m always interested in these demonstrations, having grown up with so many incorrect myths about plate armour proliferating, from knights being hoisted onto their horses with mini-cranes to them not being able to get up if they fell over. This demo is quite a...
by Duncan | Jan 5, 2015 | General, Society of the Sword, The First Blade of Ostia, The Tattered Banner
My Christmas viewing revolved around a few box sets and some stuff on Netflix. First off was an A/B session of ‘Borgia’ and ‘The Borgias’. Coming to the European-made Borgia from the US-made The Borgias was a bit jarring, and initially I...
by Duncan | Jan 3, 2013 | History
Number 3 in the inspiring areas of history series of blogs. Usual caveat found here applies! Plagues aside, the Renaissance period generally saw a substantial growth in the size of cities, Venice, Florence and Genoa begin good examples in Northern Italy. As people...
