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Wednesday, 22 October 2025
From Scourging Rebellion
From Scourging Rebellion is a 1746 song composed by the German-born British George Frideric Handel.[1] [2] It was composed in the wake of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 to celebrate Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of the Hanoverian king George II of Great Britain. Cumberland, recalled from command of the Pragmatic Army in the Low Countries, oversaw the decisive victory over the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746. It was sung at Vauxhall Gardens on 15 May 1746.[3]
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Tuesday, 21 October 2025
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Monday, 20 October 2025
Sunday, 19 October 2025
Friday, 17 October 2025
Sad paven for these distracted tymes (Thomas Tomkins)
"A sad paven for these distracted tymes," by Thomas Tomkins, played on the harpsichord by Kevin H Gray. Tomkins, who lived from 1572 until 1656, was 77 when he wrote this piece, soon after the execution of Charles the First, in 1649. Tomkins' surviving keyboard works number about sixty, and display high compositional standards.
Manchester Regiment 1745
Exciting new project.
"Blue cloathes, hangers, Plaid sash and white cockade."
A new interpretation debuted today..
The Jacobite Manchester Regiment of the 1745 rebellion!
Also described by contemporaries as wearing tartan waistcoats and lined sashes. These men from the north west of England took it upon themselves to assist in the attempted restoration of the Stuart Monarchy. Today at Chester we had great support for the cause, although the castles use as a prison served a timely reminder of the fate of many of the Manchester men in the '45..
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
The Karolinska troops are gathering to march against Russia! by Jan Arnerdal
Using Prince August self-cast 49mms.
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Basing House 1985
I am in the centre next to the drummer. My first ECW reenactment. The aftermath of a skirmish.
Storming of Basing House.
Siege of Basing House - Wikipedia
The storm was brief and bloody, lasting less than two hours. The assault was led by the regiments of Pickering, Dalbier, Montagu and Sir Hardress Waller, attacking from different directions. There were too few defenders to withstand the massive strength of the New Model Army. The Royalists were quickly driven back from the outer defences to make a last stand at the gatehouse of the Old House. A call for a parley from the defenders was ignored by the enraged Parliamentarians. Civilians as well as soldiers were slaughtered in the assault, including a number of Catholic priests. Between one and two hundred defenders were killed, the rest taken prisoner. The Marquis of Winchester is said to have been captured whilst hiding in a bread-oven. The architect Inigo Jones, who was among the civilians at Basing, was carried out naked, wrapped in a blanket.
French M1717
While on the subject of the French army of the 1720s these repro M1717s are pretty desirable. Be usable for the 45 I think.
New historical fiction
London 1508 - Henry VII is dying. Courtiers are circling, waiting, and quietly forming a new court around the soon to be Henry VIII. One of these is Thomas Wolsey, chaplain to the old king and clearly destined for a great career in both church and state. In Great Yarmouth, Wolsey's old friend Peter Larke is also dangerously close to death. Peter's sons are priests and their paths clearly marked. But then there's Joan. Unmarried and soon to be alone, her uncle John insists her only option is to become a nun. Her spirit seems broken and lost but Wolsey, a priest sworn to celebacy, suggests a shocking solution...Wolsey's Wife by N J Turton
Monday, 13 October 2025
Nathaniel Fiennes
Nathaniel Fiennes, c. 1608 to 16 December 1669, was a younger son of the Puritan nobleman and politician, William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659, and served with the Parliamentarian army in the First English Civil War. In 1643, he was dismissed from the army for alleged incompetence after surrendering Bristol and sentenced to death before being pardoned. Exonerated in 1645, he actively supported Oliver Cromwell during The Protectorate, being Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1655 to 1659.
ECW Cornish Foot
I am interested in the Royalist foot from Cornwall. Very good infantry by all accounts. I grabbed a few images from this blog in past articles.
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| Sir Bevil Grenville's regiment 1643 Maksim Borisov |
I presume i neede not runne over the particular passages of this weekes businesse at Bodmin, how Sir Bevill G. after the first warrants under the hands of thirteene Comissioners for a muster (hearing of the peoples backwardnesse) about monday gave out a second, where he injoynes them to appeare upon paine of death; nor how at last he came to the race Posts upon Bodmin-downe, with 140 or 160 men, some of which he got out of Devonshire, and 80 were armed with his own proper Armes, very discernable for that the Pikes and Rests are all painted with white and blew; |
| Alan Turton from Bristol and the Civil War The below book is useful. |
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The Warre Game - 17th Century
The Storming of Christmas steps at The Other Partizan. More here (3) The Warre Game - 17th Century | Facebook This looks stunning. Well done to all involved.
Sunday, 12 October 2025
Siege of Maastricht 1673.
Article on wargaming the battle using the En Garde rules: https://nstarmagazine.com/1672_2_1.htm
Loudon by Allan Ramsay
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| John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, pained by Allan Ramsay in 1747. This was before Loudoun became for a while Captain General of H.M. Forces in North America. |
Saturday, 11 October 2025
Like Hungry Wolves Culloden Moor, 16 April 1746 1998 by Stuart Reid (Author), Gerry Embleton (Illustrator)
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