Wednesday, 27 February 2019

T-minus 9 days until our first living history event of the season: Menu planning

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Pierre's new uniform continues apace, buttons arrived yesterday, and the pieces I've been making are all in their final stages. I sh...
Monday, 4 February 2019

an exercise in compromise, uniforming a warm man

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The above sketch is from 1780, British Army Recruits. It's a bit later for what we are trying to do for this summer, and British rath...
Monday, 28 January 2019

Picking up where we left off...

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Burn's Night weekend is over, tartan was worn, haggis and copious amounts of scotch consumed. Then my dissertation proposal paper return...
Wednesday, 16 January 2019

what I do when there's a lack of extant evidence in a particular small period of costume history: new sacque construction.

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I am not alone, researchers have found a distinct lack of extant garments from the 'French Canadian' period of the eighteenth-centur...
Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Stepping back in time this year.

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If we are going to play with Ticonderoga this year, we will have to step back in time a bit, as the site will be working on interpretation o...
Friday, 14 December 2018

Logistics

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view of Halifax, Dominic Serres, 1765, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Logistics: As a military spouse, it is often up to me to make sure the...
Monday, 10 December 2018

the social life of things: a year in the life of an object and a living historian

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I have to admit, the type of interpretation programming that really rocks my socks is the year in the life type of interpretation programing...