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Historical Reference Sites
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The Company of Military Historians was founded in 1949 as an educational, scientific, and literary institution devoted to the study and dissemination of "information on the uniforms, equipment, history, and traditions of members of the Armed Forces of the United States. |
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Napoleon.org. Excellent Reference site for the First and Second Empire in France. |
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Sons of the Revolution. This site dedicated to the American Revolution includes an extensive uniform collection. |
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Roman military equipment.ARMAMENTARIVM has the ultimate aim of providing a successor to H. Russell Robinson's seminal volume The Armour of Imperial Rome |
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British and Scottish Regiments: An Illustrated History. Arthur H. Bowling his original artwork on British Infantry and Scottish Regiments is published here for the first time entirely in colour. For modelers, especially beginners, these booklets will offer a "first port of call" for uniform research on British figures. |
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Welcome to the Samurai Archives, an on-going effort to create an extensive database on the Internet for all interested in this fascinating piece of human history. |
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Uniformology For over 40 years we have been fortunate to obtain and to photograph originals of many of the worlds most interesting and valuable collections of military uniform prints from the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries |
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Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars |
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Union Army Uniforms and Insignia of the American Civil War 1861-1865 |
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This collection is mainly intended to help wargamers painting their Greek armies. These shield patterns have been garnered mostly from books on vases and other items of pottery in museums around the world |
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Trenches on the Web is the worlds premier site for reference on World War I. The trenches are set up in such a way as to allow you to explore the "Great War" at your own pace and in your own manner. If you don't know where to start then the Reference Library is a good bet. It is a complete catalog of everything out here. |
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The Heritage of the Great War This website is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. An emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view. We are averse to historicism. And we show people rather than strategic plans or statistics. To this end this website features one of the most extensive and explicit WW-1 photo collections on the Internet. |
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"Layfayette, We Are Here!" a website for reenactors and historians to learn more about the common Doughboy soldier in the Great War |
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The Art of the First World War. 100 painting from international collections to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the end of the First World War. |
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Templar History is the worlds premier site for reference on the Knights Templar. The history, the myths and mysteries are exploered in great detail here. |
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An Illustrated History of the Roman Empire Leading Web-Resource on the Roman Empire. Over 70 megabytes online |
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Heraldry newsgroup exists for the discussion of coats of arms, the work and history of heralds, and related topics such as flags, seals, ceremony and precedence |
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Civil War.com Comprehensive ACW Site with an extensive links page |
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The "History of Costume" or "Zur Geschichte der Kostüme" was printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the publishing firm of Braun and Schneider. It was originally published as individual plates in a German magazine titled "Münchener Bilderbogen". Later, these plates were collected and bound into book form. The total publication consisted of 125 pages, with four pictures per pages, for a total of 500 costume designs. These plates consisted of historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century. This book is an excellent source for students who are studying the history of fashion and for costume designers. |
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House of Tartan, the comprehensive image database of all the worlds tartans, is linked to fabrics and products from Scotlands leading weaving manufacturers. |
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This Web Site is dedicated to the history of the Landsknecht (plural) and especially to the clothing from their times, the time was the high renaissance in Europe (c.e.1400-1600) |
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Croatain Military Art. This site features excellent prints of military uniforms from Ancient Greeks to Bosnia 1995 |
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British History . The site has easy to follow sections in the following: Roman Britain , 100 year war, Wars of the Roses, English civil war.,Napoleonic Wars, World War II
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World War II on the Web. Information for collectors, historians, students, and researchers. Contains links to just about anything related to WWII from historical background and research to collecting militaria. |
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Fully indexed timeline of World War II |
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On reenactor.Net you will find information about historical reen-acting around the world. |