A Commonplace Book

We lost an Antares rocket and a Cygnus spacecraft, bound for ISS, last night. About twelve seconds off the pad something went wrong. There s...

It is well to remember, in watching any of Shakespeare's histories, that he was always a playwright first. Whenever he had to choose bet...

R and Julie are remarkably less stupid than their Shakespearean prototypes although R is a lot less articulate. Still, the road to true love...

Anne Curry has noted that several retinues who lost men from illness during the siege of Harfleur in 1415 managed to find replacements for ...

At first glance, it might seem that the English army in during the Agincourt Campaign is quite well documented. The Soldier in later Medieva...

Iain M. Banks' Inversions is a covert Culture novel. Set on a quasi-medieval world, two of the characters are secretly from the technol...

This as a grim and mordant Iain M. Banks short story in The State of the Art which a man and his sentient spacesuit, both damaged, are forc...

Rain on Saturday depressed attendance for Medieval Days , but Sunday's lovely October weather brought a good turnout, although the hum...

This helmet, seen earlier  here , now has a pomme , a ball of gilded wood to hold feathers, just like Hector's. ...

This vane was made from brass sheet by Robert MacPherson. The wooden knob it rests on is topped with a brass washer ...