HEMA Weekly

What’s up in Historical Fencing Upcoming events: Military Sabre Tournament 2019 Swordplay Wessex League: Exeter Chapter Event report: Fechtfest 2019 Purpleheart Open 2019 report by Denver Historical Fencing Academy This week’s craftsman: Gajardoni This week’s videos: Meyers Dussack 5 by Historical Fencing Affiliates Playing with manual’s text by Practical HEMA Scottish Highland Field Officer’s Sword…

Viking’s Weekly

What’s up in Early Medieval Reenactment Upcoming events: XVI Piknik Historyczny Wikingowie i Słowianie w Bobrzy Gjallarstadir Vikingmarked Gunnes gårds Vikingatida höstmarknad 2019 Ishøj Vikingemarked 2019 Slawen- und Wikingertag Event report: Imandra Viking Fest This week’s craftsman: The Viking Store This week’s video: Testing early iron age Vimose Seax How to Sew a Skjoldehamn Viking…

Knight’s Weekly

What’s up in Middle Ages Reenactment Upcoming events:  IX Turniej Rycerski Śladami Braci Dobrzyńskich 10 Jahre Schwertkampfturnier Nürnberg Fürstenfelder Ritterspiele Xèmes Médiévales des Tours de Passy Les Fêtes Médiévales de Déols Mittelaltervergnügen Medieval Weekend at Michelham Priory Fête médiévale de Pont-Croix Event report: Dias Medievais em Castro Marim HMB at Kryal Castle by Western Wolves…

19th Century Weekly

What’s up in Reenactment of 1789-1914 Upcoming events:  The Calm Before the Storm Civil War Days at Fort Benton An 1860s Homestead Harvest at the Crabill House First Weekend Union Garrison Event report Civil War at the Central Park in Huntington Beach California Regimental Fete Day 2019 by 21eme Regiment d’Infanterie de Ligne 2e Bataillon…

US Civil War steamship that sank in Liverpool gets protected status

The wreckage of a Liverpool-built steamship that sank on its maiden voyage while carrying supplies for the Confederate forces during the American Civil War has been granted protection. Paddle steamer Lelia left the city for Bermuda in January 1865, but foundered in Liverpool Bay due to stormy weather. Forty-seven crew members died, as did seven…

What was it like to travel during the Middle Ages? Part 1: Going by Road

The Middle Ages was a world on the move. Sometimes this could mean actually picking up your whole life and moving it to another place—a “sometimes” much more frequent than traditional accounts of serfdom and feudalism would have it. For example, teenagers from the countryside sought work in cities to make themselves more worthy marriage…