Monmouth Rebels

Here's me (on the right) playing Nathaniel Wade (Monmouth Rebel) for a tv programme for children. This was about 12 years ago. The other guy is portraying Ferguson.

Monmouth Rebels in 28mm

I have to say I am pretty enthusiastic about these - They look the real deal and scream out for a characterful paintjob. From Front Rank.

Helsingborg

Image from here. Fought today in 1710. Wiki here. Go here to see the League of Augsburg's refighting in miniature. Go here to see Marc Grieves painting of the battle

Marc Grieves

Artist who has done a number of excellent paintings for this era. This one is Lund 1676 - there are some more including Great Northern War at his site here

Soldiers in the Field

Image from this blog 'the 1640s Picturebook; Costume & Stuff from the English Civil War '. It's well worth a look. It says
Drawing by Thomas Neale, dated 1657-1659. An unusual view in its rarity. There are precious few images of English ordinary troops from this period.

Williamite conference

Thanks to Rampjaar 1672 for this:
The Williamite Universe co-organises an upcoming conference in Maison française d’Oxford, 3-4 May 2012, entitled

“Louis XIV: Outside In: Reactions and Responses to the Sun King beyond France.”

The conference map the variety of ways reactions to Louis shaped discussion and action across Europe and the globe; and will provide a forum for stimulating comparative history.

Plenary speakers include:

Professor Tim Harris (Brown, Providence RI, US),‘Francophobia in late Stuart England’
Professor David Hayton (Queens, Belfast, UK), ‘Louis XIV, James II, and the conflict in Ireland’
Professor Henk van Nierop (Amsterdam, NL), ‘Romeyn de Hooghe’s Louis XIV’
Professor Hendrik Ziegler (Hamburg, D),‘Image battles under Louis XIV’

For more information, check the conference website:

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/history/conferences/louisXIV/index.php

or the Williamite Universe website:

http://www.let.uu.nl/ogc/William/

or contact the organisers

Tony Claydon (t.claydon@bangor.ac.uk) or Charles-Edouard Levillain (charles-edouard.levillain@iep.univ-lille2.fr)

Best wishes,

WU secretary

Siege of Wells 1978

This is interesting - footage of the Sealed Knot reenacting the siege of Wells.