Articles of Interest

Here you will find numerous articles on a variety of topics. They are listed alphabetically by topic. If you want to search for a particular topic, try using the Find option (CTRL-F) on your browsers edit menu, or use our site search (left above this paragraph).

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Additional articles can be found in the Clann Tartan Newsletter.

A - E

• Aimed Small Arms Fire: 1580-1650 - Glenn McDavid
• An Ancestors Letter - Judy Byers
• Armor: Its use and disuse in Europe c. 1630 AD - Glenn McDavid
• The Army of Gustavus Adolphus
• The Belted Plaid: Its Social Status before 1700 - Glenn McDavid
• Cavalry Tactics: The end of the Caracole and the revival of Cold Steel - Glenn McDavid
• Celtic Warfare - C. Knutson
• Charms and Talismans - Retired Sargent MacGregor
• Clann Cockade (or "We don't need no Stinking Badges!"); - James Kuehl
• Cold Weather Gear - David Vavreck
• Cold Weather Gear part 2 - Womens - David Vavreck
• Duties of Military Offices
• Early Scottish Firearms - C. Knutson
• Elizabethan Military Medicine - C. Knutson

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F - J

• Fire & Hearth - by C. Lamphear
• The Regimental Flower Garden - Maeve Kane
• Gustavus Adolphus A word about the man.
• Some Historical Source Documents.
• The History of the Sappers - E. Nelson
• The History of the Fork - Robert (MacNie) Portinga
• Infantry Pay Rates in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus - Glenn McDavid
• The Life of an Herbwife in 1630 Scotland - Mary McKinley

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K - Q

• Matchlocks - C. Knutson
• People and Places in Playford - David Vavreck
• Primer on 1640 and Interactive quiz - Eric Ferguson

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R - S

• Re-Enactment 101 - Summary by K. Garland
• Religion in the Scottish Highlands: 1600-1650 - Glenn McDavid
• The Scottish Army in the Early Phases of the British Civil Wars - Glenn McDavid
• Seventeenth Century Scottish Music - David Vavreck
• Seventeenth Century Shoes - David Vavreck
• So You’ve Turned to the Plaid Side: How to Avoid Culture Shock at Your First Event - Maeve Kane
• Spectacles in the 17th Century - David Vavreck
• The Stockings of the Common Man, His Wife and Children - Maeve Kane
• Swords - Joe (the) Smith
• Swords in the Devil's hand: The Myth and the Evidence: - Glenn McDavid

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T - Z

• The Thirty Years War - Professor Gerhard Rempel
• Timeline of the Thirty Years War - Eric Ferguson
• The Well-Trimmed Toe: On Making a Shoe Rose - Maeve Kane
• Why an Irish Gown? - Glenn McDavid
• Polish Winged Hussars against Pikemen - Glenn McDavid
• Witch Trials - C. Knutson