Glencarnoch's Regiment's Research Links Collection

A word from The LinkLady: Please use discretion in your internet research. The goal of this page is to provide a central repository for links of all kinds. LinkLady has endeavoured to check each link to make sure it works. However, LinkLady takes absolutely no responsibility whatsoever in any way, shape or form for the historical accuracy or merits of any site listed herein. Basically, if a link is broken, I want to know. If a link leads to a site obviously written by an ignorant cretin assisted by three schoolchildren and a tame mouse, that's not my problem. I only code the page.



HISTORY, UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULAR

General History
The Medieval Sourcebook at Fordham. Explores aspects of Medieval life.
The Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham. Explores aspects of Early Modern History
The Women's History Sourcebook at Fordham (extracted from their other online sourcebooks)
The Medieval Technology Pages Tracing the Evolution of Technology in the Middle Ages
The Ancient World Web
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Ken's WebSampler Middle Ages and Renaissance Links
WebScribe SCA-oriented, but a plethora of documents and graphics files to browse (as well as a downloadable copy of the Black Book of Locksley)
The Medieval Feminist Index Search for books discussing medieval history from a feminist perspective.
Women Warriors
Military Women of History
The Skeptic's Dictionary For those who like questioning their own perceptions.
ORB Online
Knighthood And Chivalry Resources
The Pestillence Tyme The Plague in Europe

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Scottish History
The Declaration of Arborath English translation by Charles McGregor
Lord Murray's Letter to Prince Charles Edward Stuart following Culloden
Medieval Scotland Sharon Krossa's Medieval Scotland website
Medieval Scottish History Another site
Scottish Civil Wars
The Celts
Scottish History and Famous Scots Part of the soc.culture.scottish FAQ
Dr. James Barry The story of James Barry, 18th Century Surgeon General of British Army...a woman.
Northburn Community Park The story of an unfortunate young lady

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IN THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE: COSTUMING

Costuming References and Resources
Milieux: The Costume Site This site is huge, and has links to just about everything you could ever want (even armor). Links to Research Libraries, Images, Instructions, Suppliers, and more. The best there is.
The Elizabethan Costuming Page Everything you wanted to know about Elizabethan Costuming, but were afraid to ask.
The 18th Century Costume Index
Reconstructing History Our pals at RH.
17th Century Stays: How to make them (by an English Civil Wars Re-Enactor)
16th Century Celtic Dress
Bissonnette On CostumeExcellent and detailed photographs of surviving 18th century stays (corsets)
The Costumer's Manifesto
La Couturière Excellent site, lots of good information, also some downloadable patterns.
The Costume Gallery

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Costuming Supplies
Grannd GarbCostuming Suplies and Accessories, a woman-owned business, and an IWG Merchant (and I might add that she carries steel corset boning in hard-to-find 1/2" as well as the more common 1/4" size) - Recommended!
Amazon Drygoods
Farthingales Sewing and corsetrey supplies
Sewing Central Corsetry and hooping supplies
Harper House Patterns
Patterns of Time

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LANGUAGES: SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH

Scots Gaelic
Sabhal Mór Ostaig
Gaelic Dictionaries Online (Scots, Irish, and Manx)
Comann an Luchd Ionnsachaidh (CLI) Gaelic Learners' Association
An Comunn Gaidhealach Ameiraga
Bay Area Scottish Gaelic Learners' Association
Learners' Resources (from Sabhal Mór Ostaig)
An Gáidheal Ur All-Gaelic Newspaper
The Carmina Gadelica At Sabhal Mór Ostaig
Musketeer Commands in Gaelic From Gordon's Musketeers.
Womyn's Song Workshop Homepage, Songs in Gaelic and English, with transliteration


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Scots
Scots on the Wab Clive Young's excellent online Scots resource
STARN The Scots Teaching and Resource Network
Scots Language

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Irish Gaelic
Yamada Irish Gaelic Resources Form the University of Oregon
Irish Gaelic FAQ
Learning Gaelic From "The Irish People"
Irish Gaelic Lessons Interactive Irish Gaelic Lessons
Irish Gaelic Songs

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Manx Gaelic
Yamada Welsh Resources From the University of Oregon
Manx Gaelic From Sabhal Mór Ostaig
Manx Gaelic Resources

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Welsh and Cornish
The Welsh Language Board
Cymdeithas Madog The Welsh Institute of North America
Yamada Welsh Resources At the University of Oregon
Online Welsh Course

CLAS The Cornish Language Advisory Service
Cornish Language Page

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Old and Middle English
Speaking Rakehell: A Lexicon of Lewdness Okay, I couldn't find any place else to put it!

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THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION (AND FOLKLORE)

Religion - Christan
The Ecole Initiative Links to images and primary sources, primarily Judeo-Christian, some Islamic Links
Images from The Book of Kells
The Douay-Rhiems Bible The original English Translation of the Roman Catholic Vulgate, predates the King James Translation
The King James Bible The Translation Ordered by King James VI/I

Religion - Pre-Christian
No links were submitted for Pre-Christian Religion
Religion - Celtic
Celtic Religion "What do we really know?"
Celtic Religion and Mythology
Folklore - General
Encyclopaedia Mythica
Myths and Legends
Folklore - Celtic/Scottish
The Dalriada Trust Scottish and Celtic Folklore
Celtic Mythology and Art

Fada's Farsaing Gaelic/Celtic Customs

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AESTHETES AND ASCETICS...ARTS AND CRAFTS

Blacksmithing
StandFast Works Forge (hey, it's free advertising!)
Artist Blacksmiths' Association of North America
British Artist Blacksmiths' Association
A 15th Century Poem about noisy Blacksmiths

Fibre Arts: Spinning, Weaving, and Needlework
No fibre arts links were submitted
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Historical Cooking
The Medieval-Renaissance Food Page
The Book of Gode Gookery

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FREEDOM ROCK: MUSIC AND SONG

Womyn's Song Workshop Homepage, Songs in Gaelic and English, with transliteration
16th Century Ballads
Ceolas Celtic music resources online.
The Bagpipe Web Resources for pipers.
Lark in the Morning Purveyors of period instruments of all sorts

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BOOKSELLERS
J. Thin BooksellerScotPress Formerly Unicorn
History House Books, Stories, and Historical Trivia
Imaginations Unlimited Bookstore (Robert Harbison)
Borders Books and Music
Barnes and Noble
Amazon.com
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Literature Online
Project Guttenburg Online Texts available for free download.
BSU Online Texts
The Decameron Online From Brown University.

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POINTED STICKS AND FRESH FRUIT: WEAPONRY THROUGH THE AGES
Hutton's Old Sword Play Historical Treatise on All kinds of swordplay. Special section on two-handed swords.
The Historical Armed Combat Association (HACA)
The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) Fight choreography and direction.
Gordon's Musketeers Webpage This site has a large section on the evolution of firearms.
The Arador Armor LibraryElizabethan Fencing

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: LIVING HISTORY GEAR AND GROUPS
Costuming and Sundries
Jason Townsend And Sons Good resource for costuming, books and sundries, fair prices, excellent service (if you can't get through to their server, keep trying)
Chivalry Sports Renaissance Store Medieval and Renaissance gear and sundries
Fox River Traders Mostly Fur-trading era gear.
Smoke and Fire Living History Gear (I've had problems with this website not working correctly in the past)
By the Sword, Inc. Costuming and weaponry, lots more, too
Stitches from Tyme
Round Two Costuming Also visit Round Two Corsetry (accessible from main site)
Argent Flame Costuming Custom Costuming
MacGregor Historic Games Historic Pastimes and Games
SeamLyne Costuming Design and Production
The Scottish Renegade Sutler dealing primarily in 'fur trade,' also 18th Century and Celtic Products.
Sykes Sutlery 17th Century Products
Black Swan Designs Historical Costumers
Period Costuming by Winego

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Weaponry
The Mad Piper
Museum Replicas, Ltd. Very nice reproductions, prices tend to be on the high side
Swords 'n' Stuff Buy Local! Located in Brunswick, Maine, large online catalog
Sword Center of the Internet Site can be a bit difficult to navigate, I've found good prices there in the past
Tuscany Trading More reproduction arms, they also carry an "economy" line of swords (at your own risk on economy stuff)
American Fencer's Supply Armory Swords, rapiers, and individual components (hilts, grips, pommels). Not just for fencers anymore!
The Armory Not to be confused with the Armory above. Reproduction Arms.
By the Sword, Inc. Costuming and weaponry, lots more, too
UAI Online Knifemaking supplies
Dixie Gun Works 700+ page paper catalog for sale. Dixie deals in Reproduction firearms, kits, black powder supplies. They also carry some living history gear and patterns (geared toward US Civil War). Flintlock components and parts available, as well as fireable Scottish scroll-butt pistols
Tattershall Arms Very expensive custom-made reproduction longarms
Targes from TartanWeb Nice photos of various reproduction targes
Historic Enterprises
Christian Fletcher Medieval Military Arms and Armor
Medieval Mayhem
Armor Class
Macallen Armourers
Scottish Swords

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Purveyors of Divers and Sundrie Other Stuff
Mystic Caravan Jewelry, stone work, and Clothing
Gryphon's Moon Mostly Jewelry.
Shetland Piper
Mostly Medieval
The Renaissance Shoppe

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Living History Groups
The International Wenches' Guild No hidden agendas here! I'm a member, so they're getting listed first
The Sealed Knot English Civil Wars
Blackwell's Regiment of Foot A Royalist English Civil Wars Regiment.
The Border League Professional Re-Enactors of the Border marches
The English Civil War Society
The Earl of Loudoun's Regiment of Foote Scots Covenanters
The Reivers Project
Manus O'Cahan's Regiment of Foot Scots Royalist Regiment
Gordon's Musketeers
Lothene Experimental Archaeology Medieval Scotland Living History

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History and Living History Webrings and Resources
The Medieval and Renaissance Webring
The Baroque Webring European Baroque period history
The League of Renaissance Merchants Webring Sites of commercial sellers of Ren-Faire gear
The Living History Webring Sites specific to Living History.
The History Webring Sites dealing with history.
17th Century Re-Enacting Resources
Call to Arms Re-Enactment Directory Military Re-enactors
The UK Re-Enactor's Webring
All The King's Men Webring Another military re-enactor's directory
Jubal Re-Enactment Online
The Costume Webring
The Reproduction Costumes Webring
Celtic Heritage Webring
The Medieval Webring
The Alba Webring

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BLOOD, BEARDS, AND BODIES: THEATRICAL SUPPLIES AND RESOURCES

Ready-made Faux Corpses Just in case you don't have time to make your own...
His and Her Hair Goods Wigs, beards, even chest hair!
Garland Beauty Supply More wigs and things, as well as theatrical makeup.
Special Effects Supply Company Fun stuff for the thespian in you.

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ANCESTORS, NEAR AND FAR
The GENUKI Homepage THE starting point for genealogical research in the UK and Ireland.
Register House The General Register House in Scotland. Find out procedures and prices for certificate lookups
Gordon Johnson's Homepage Gordon is a retired librarian and genealogist (and all around nice guy), and gives helpful advice on reading Scottish certificates. Check out "The Old News," a compilation of newspaper articles from Scotland's history (one of my ancestors is in edition 5)

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SCOTLAND'S STILL THERE: MODERN SCOTLAND, NEWS AND RESOURCES

The soc.culture.scottish FAQ Craig Cockburn's huge list of Frequently asked questions about all things Scottish
SCSI: The soc.culture.scottish Informer A less serious look at soc.culture.scottish (and Scotland in general)
The soc.culture.celtic FAQ Also by Craig Cockburn
The Silicon Glen Scotland's name on the Internet
Rampant Scotland Scottish Website Directory
Scottish Culture from the Mining Co. Another directory
BBC Scotland Online
BBC America Call your satellite company today for BBC America.
The Scotsman Online
Scotland on Sunday
D.C. Thomson (Sunday Post) Added especially for Oor Wullie fans
The Scots Magazine First published in 1739

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Museums and Museum Resources
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) Searchable database of the holdings of Scottish Museums
Scottish Museums Council

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INTERNET, SOFTWARE & SEARCH ENGINES (MOSTLY FREE)

Software
Copernic The best local metasearcher. Use multiple search engines, and keep the results on your own hard drive. Free download of Crippleware version (some speacial search features not included, advertisement banners during search, but otherwise quite functional for basic searches)
Forté Free Agent The best free Usenet offline newsreader, hands down. Fully functional, configurable, and FREE. The commercial, more powerful version sells for under $30 US (please note that it is currently unclear whether Forté will continue to offer Free Agent in the future)
Evrsoft 1st page 2000 Fully functional and powerful HTML editor (it wrote this page). Has different interfaces: Easy, Normal, Expert, and Hardcore. It's also FREE.

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Search Engines and Utilities Déja.com (formerly Déja News) Search Usenet articles old and new.
Remarq Another Usenet Engine; they also offer a for-pay direct sucking usenet feed for ISP's and individuals.
Dogpile Search multiple popular search engines.
Northern Lights Some people have reported better search results for Scottish subjects using this Search Engine.

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Software Download Sites
C|Net Downloads Download freeware, shareware, and demos
Softseek Software Downloads
TuCows More Software downloads
The Free Site Software, Graphics, Sounds...all for free


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Clipart, Graphics, Fonts, Tunes, and Multimedia
Clipart Castle From the fine folks at Castle Trash
Celtic Clipart
Celtic Web Art
Celtic Art and Font Links
WaldenFont Specialilized fonts, Celtic and Medieval.
Celtic WebRadio Index of Celtic WebRadio sites
Celtic MP3 Files

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Usenet Newsgroups
Society and Culture Newsgroups
Scottish Culture: soc.culture.scottish Precious little to do with Scottish or Culture, and notably antisocial.
Scottish Clans: alt.scottish.clans Tartan-y discussions.
Irish Culture: soc.culture.irish Possibly the only newsgroup whose denizens are ruder than soc.culture.scottish; for the thick-skinned only.
Welsh Culture: soc.culture.welsh You get the idea....
Celtic Culture: soc.culture.celtic The original, before the split into separate groups. (There is no soc.culture.english, if anyone was wondering...)
History Newsgroups
soc.history General History (there is also a moderated newsgroup, soc.history.moderated)
soc.history.ancient For discussion of ancient history.
soc.history.medieval Medieval History.
soc.history.early-modern Early-Modern History (1500-1800). There was some trouble with this group's initial control command, and it's still not being carried by many servers.
soc.history.living Living history newsgroup
alt.history.ancient-worlds May be a duplicate of soc.history.ancient.
alt.history.british
alt.history.colonial
alt.history.costuming

Newsgroups in the scot.* domain (demon.*, scot.* and uk.* groups are not as widely propogated as others and may or may not appear on your server. They are generally intended for those resident in Scotland, and it is not uncommon for foreigners to receive an unfriendly welcome)
scot.announce, scot.bairns, scot.birds, scot.environment, scot.followup, scot.general, scot.jobs, scot.politics, scot.scots, scot.test.
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Just For Fun
Facade Throw the I Ching, have a tarot reading, cast runes...all online and for free.
Moon Phase Calculator Ever wonder what the moon was doing when you were born? Find out here.
The Dialectizer You have to see it to believe it.
The Internet Movie Database Good for researching purposes.
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PERIPHERAL HISTORY - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
PLEASE NOTE: THE PERIPHERAL HISTORY PAGE IS NON-FUNCTIONAL AT THIS TIME. PLEASE BE PATIENT AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH MORE WEIRD HISTORY THAN YOU CAN TAKE Top