My brother died of stomach cancer at the age of 42 and all my friends abandoned me so I was very lonely. Faced with the choice between joining a bereavement support group and endlessly talking about how miserable I felt or getting out, joining something, meeting new people and drinking beer I went f...

Then again, the spinning guild were taken to task by a re-enactor on the grounds that our wheels were reproductions

http://heritagecrafts.org.uk/ There's a red list of endangered craft workers. Look like cool people, worth checking out

www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UCnL4ItKw

Anyone any comments on the drum????

http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Hnef.html

Does anyone know of any better sites than this one??

/www.sfs.org.uk/
Society For Storytelling - for anyone interested in the oral storytelling tradition. If there's a club near you they'll have a link on here

http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC179732

Specifically about Gaza

/www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ty-mawr-wybrnant

Nettles give a dirty green and are really easy to obtain. Also makes really good nutirent for the garden

If anyone needs to advertise events www.wherecanwego.com is very useful. I didn't see this mentioned at the recent 1940s day at the Transport Museum at Carlton Colville. Are you sure this is happening?

Which new heritage site???

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum ... aling-past

C14 exhibition coming up. Entry is by donation and the cafe does really good cream tea

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses. There are two courses whihc you can start now - just keep scrolling down, past the stuff on antibiotic resistance etc

https://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/3recipes.html

Taken from the card weaving facebook group. I'm not aware of much tab weaving stuff from this period

http://awanderingelf.weebly.com/blog-my ... ghted-loom

Has anyone tried making one of these?

http://archaeologylive.org

If you fancy some hands on archeology this summer York could be the place

http://www.pre-construct.com/Publications/Lundenwic.htm

Free download PDF about Lundenwic. I particularly like the bit about beekeeping on page ten.
There's a great piece about this in the Museum of London. Well worth visiting

RBST Fleece Sale, Sunday 04 June, 10:00 – 15:00 at RBST HQ Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, CV8 2LG Huge Selection of sheep fleeces for sale, plus refreshments and advice. RBST is the Rare Breeds Survival Trust so this is an ideal opportunity to pick people's brains about old breeds of sheep For anyone ...

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/ww1-stories

Free on line course - fun to do

The Old English word for purple is fiscdeag - fish dye. Does this mean the Anglo-Saxons could make purple dye?

Apologies, my mistake, times for the bed are 10.00 and 20,44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxDZiZzrcA Bed bit at 28.48.

www.en.neulakintaat

Saltdal stitch - taken from the nalbinding FB group. It really is possible to be an anorak about absolutely anything

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/archaeology

Haven't done any of these myself but they look promising. Currently there's a few courses about WWI and WWII (I think) and Richard III

They are free

Weapons, fine, but you also need warm clothes. IT does pain me to see people wearing knitted hats and socks when nalbinding is so easy to teach yourself from youtube. I can teach eight year olds to do this! nalbinding needles are readily availabe on etsy or dead easy to make yourself, or cheat and u...

http://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/adult-workshops/

2017 dates are up on the website - how to do all sorts of things like making your own sword. Cool or what????