Links
Our own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/historicalarmytours/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Historical-Army-Tours/313758188696498
And our training venue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210887932357737/
Where to get kit:
Other groups and re-enactors:
History and sites of interest:
And our training venue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210887932357737/
Where to get kit:
- http://paddedarmour.deborahloughcostumes.com/ for padded armour and costumes. Run by Nigel Walton and Deborah Lough, they make fantastic padding.
- http://www.etsy.com/shop/PlateauImprints - Reconstructed clothing and artefacts by Claire Marshall, great quality and authenticity.
- http://www.medievalartandwoodcraft.com/ - Frances Perry and James Raynor, for paintings, banners, livery badges, and authentically made wooden items.
- http://www.thepotterman.co.uk/ - Lee Steele, historic pottery and ceramics, and pottery and ceramics workshops as well
Other groups and re-enactors:
- http://eranudturan.blogspot.co.uk/ - the blog of Nadeem Ahmad, the re-enactor we are working with to bring you the impression of the armoured Sassanian lancer.
- http://www.levantia.com.au/ - Timothy Dawson's website, dedicated to the Byzantine Empire. Timothy Dawson has a wealth of knowledge about Byzantium and lots of very fancy kit as well.
- http://www.radpour.com/ - the website of Ardeshir Radpour, another re-enactor who has put some great effort into Persian impressions (including a late Sassanian medium cavalry). Also he shares his experience building his own version of the four-horned saddle.
History and sites of interest:
- http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/ and http://www.tourajdaryaee.com/ are excellent websites by Touraj Daryaee, a historian who specialises in the Sassanians. Well worth a read.
- http://dariocaballeros.blogspot.co.uk/ - the website of Dariusz Wielec, an artist and historian whose drawings and artworks have appeared in Ancient Warfare magazine.
- http://www.silk-road.com/toc/newsletter.html - the Journal of the Silk Road Foundation, a journal to do with all aspects of Central Asian culture. Free to read online, too.