Quotulatiousness

August 28, 2020

Forging a Sword – part three: heat treatment

Filed under: Technology, Tools, Weapons — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 12 Jul 2018

Heat-treating a sword is very important, and can easily go very wrong. Here you see my first go at it.

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No special lightsabre effects were used in this video. It actually looked like that in real life.

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August 25, 2020

Forging a Sword – part two: fuller, bevels, straightening

Filed under: Technology, Tools, Weapons — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 28 May 2018

Sword-smithing again at the Cut And Thrust Collective, working on Arnander, my type 18 bastard sword. Lots of hammering.

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Part one of forging a sword: https://youtu.be/KYydVZRbl6M

My tutor: Thom Leworthy.

Music used in this video: “Siegfried’s Funeral March” by Wagner.

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August 24, 2020

MATERA – James Bond and the City of Beige

Filed under: Architecture, Books, Europe, History, Italy — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published 23 Aug 2020

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Matera is an city in Italy which has suddenly become famous. It is rather special and here I describe why.

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August 22, 2020

Forging a sword – part one: the basic shape

Filed under: Technology, Tools, Weapons — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 8 Feb 2018

Hammering hot metal into shape is quite a satisfying task, when it goes well. Here you see me shaping out my sword.

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I was invited by the Cut and Thrust Collective to go to Glastonbury and make my own sword. In an earlier video, you saw my training (forging a nail), and immediately after that we started on the sword. Thom Leworthy was the bladesmith showing me how it is done.

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August 18, 2020

Modern art insults me

Filed under: Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published 4 Apr 2015

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Modern art has been shown to be a fraud many times. Again and again people fool so-called “expert” with works done by novices, toddlers, or even chimpanzees. The Baltic in Newcastle is a fine gallery, Unfortunately, they very seldom find anything to put in it worth looking at, let alone journeying any distance to see.

People appreciate effort, skill, and an attempt to please or at least be understood. Works of art that clearly have taken no skill, time, effort, or care to create are an insult to the gallery viewer.

Clearly, I am not saying that ALL modern (or “contemporary” if you prefer) art is insulting. I am just explaining why much of it is. Great art in the past was not all understood by everybody, but it didn’t insult those who didn’t understand it.

Similarly, I am not saying that any art that took ages to make is good. Boris Vallejo is an amazing draughtsman, but his works are not good art.

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I must admit, I’m often amused at tales of modern art “installations” being mistaken for rubbish and cleaned up by the janitorial staff after hours. In most reported cases, the cleaners have demonstrably higher artistic judgement than the curators who bring in the “art”.

August 11, 2020

Napoleon’s greatest foe

Filed under: Britain, Europe, France, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 18 Jan 2018

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Possibly I did too much research for this one. Trying to stay on-topic when the subject is so vast and so interesting was not easy, hence the rather long video. I didn’t mean to say quite so much about what an utter £$%&*! Napoleon was, but he was so thoroughly vile that it proved impossible not to include some details about the man who won his promotion in the army by mowing down civilian protesters in the streets of Paris with grapeshot from his artillery batteries. Anyway, here are tales of bravery and virtue, as well as horrendous some of brutality, lies, and death.

Correction: The battle against the Russian fleet is called Svensksund (Swedish sound, as in channel), not Svenksund. I missed out an S in my haste.

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August 5, 2020

Berserkers! The facts and the fictions

Filed under: Europe, History — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 16 Jul 2015

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This one has been a long time coming, but now I’m glad that I’ve said it. It may disappoint many die-easy fans of unnecessary carnage, but the truth about berserkers is that they may have been a great deal more sensible and human than the rage-fuelled psychos so beloved by the world’s male teenagers.

Here’s a link to Roderick Dale’s new Viking book (although Amazon inaccurately describes it as an audiobook and abridged): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-Experi…

For those wanting the full 100,000-word thesis, try here: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28819/

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July 28, 2020

Roman kit: featuring armour, swords, spears, artillery, rations, deckchairs, and of course shoes

Filed under: Britain, Europe, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published 27 Jul 2020

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A video of re-enactors and their Roman kit. Sorry about the wind noise.

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Here’s a link to the Ermine Street Guard – Britain’s foremost imperial Roman re-enactment group: http://www.erminestreetguard.co.uk

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July 4, 2020

Crusader helmets

Filed under: Europe, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Lindybeige
Published 4 Sep 2014

Here I show you three common styles of crusader helmet, and I comment upon them.

Thanks to Dr David Tetard for the loan of his helmets. These particular ones were bought here:

www.getdressedforbattle.co.uk
http://www.kovexars.cz/index.php (HL 007 and 103)

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June 20, 2020

Two books on WW2 – which is the memoir and which the novel?

Filed under: Books, Britain, Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 4 Mar 2018

Two books I have read recently. When is a book a memoir and when is it a novel? WW2 from two different perspectives.

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The books:
From the City, From the Plough by Alexander Baron (Bernstein)
The Last Panther by Wolfgang Faust (Chris Ziedler)

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February 24, 2020

The British Lee tank (that is not a Grant)

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, USA, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published 23 Feb 2020

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The Lee tank was an American hastily-made tank that saw action in the north African desert, and the Grant was a British version of the same vehicle. But there were also Lee tanks that were more like Grants. I try to explain the confusion.

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February 17, 2020

Sieges and Siege-craft

Filed under: Britain, France, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published 2 Jun 2016

Sieges in the ancient and medieval worlds were on quite different scales. 10,000 men can do things differently from 500.

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This video’s subject was chosen by Jack Sargeant, the winner of the DeepArt art competition a couple of weeks ago. The topic is a large one, but I hope I gave it a decent enough shot.

Castle illustration by Mathew Nielsen.

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November 25, 2019

Historical hats

Filed under: Europe, History, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published 4 Mar 2015

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There were so many types of hat in the past, and yet it turns out that many of them were actually the same.

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November 18, 2019

Fungus rock – the great placebo treasure (and the Mujahideen)

Filed under: Europe, Health, History — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 5 Jun 2015

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The things that people valued and fought over in the past were not as they are now. You might not guess the tremendous significance of one tiny island off the coast of Gozo.

NEWS FLASH (March 8th 2017): the Azure Window, featured in this video, has collapsed into the sea.

More videos from Malta to follow.

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Fungus rock – the great placebo treasure

November 13, 2019

Conclusions from a mock battle

Filed under: History, Military — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 19 Jul 2013

Re-enactment is a form of experimental archaeology.

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