Renaissance and Regency Rummage Repository

A rummage through random aspects of the past that interest me and may be of use or interest to other readers and writers of period fiction. Please note that the stories featured and my artwork for the covers are copyright; and have the courtesy to ask permission if you wish to use anything that is mine, and duly acknowledge it if you do.

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Some more Renaissance Pastimes

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Many pastimes were Medieval in origin or even older; various forms of games with skittles were played, including Claish, or Closh which ...

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Friday, 21 October 2011

The food of Nelson’s Navy

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Celebrating Trafalgar day in my usual off the wall fashion, which is why I'm posting a day earlier than usual. Thanks to Dudley Pope...

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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Conspiracy theory for fun

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The mystery surrounding the little Princes in the Tower is well known – and generally the libel by Shakespeare concerning Richard III’s...

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Saturday, 15 October 2011

Starboard and Larboard

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Nowadays we talk about Port and Starboard, but Larboard is the older term for Port and was certainly used at the time of Nelson’s navy. T...

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Sarah: Well, let me see, I'm a bibliophile, Ailurophile, technophobe and practising to be a grumpy old woman. I get irritated by glaring anachronisms in fiction, and I love to read a well researched book. I live in East Anglia in England, and I love the history that surrounds me there. My major field of interest is in textiles; I also sew.

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