Looking For The Evidence
Historical Research of Extant Finds and other Historical items for Living Historians & Re-enactors
and
Historical Research
– Looking for the Evidence By Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )
Research Disclaimer : Please note that This Research was done many years ago now :
so the information contained may now be out of date , photos gone missing or web links broken
My apologises : But It has become an impossible task to try and keep it up to date - Jenny
Welcome to our New Website Look !
16 Sept 2020: Due to google website changes, I have had to redesign the Website and give it a whole new look
It now has individual Research sections which are stand alone websites linked into here -
Please click on the Blue Heading Buttons to be taken to the new Research section website
and there is a drop down information box beside it which will tell you what you will find there
I hope you like the new look ! - Jenny
There are 24 Pages of Research here
Dark Ages - Viking Research - Here you will find
Extant Finds
A Summary of Extant Scale, Mail & Lamellar Armour Finds
Extant Lamellar Armour Finds
Extant Mail Armour Finds
Extant Scale Armour Finds
Extant Wooden Shields Finds
Extant Helmets - Summary of Finds from Late Roman / Iron Age to 13th Century
Extant Shoes & Boots - Summary of Finds from Very Early to 10th Century
Extant Shoes & Boots - Summary of Finds from 11th century to 16th Century
Extant Bronze /Iron / Viking / Medieval age Hats- Caps - Headbands
Extant Iron Age / Viking / Medieval Hoods
Extant Saxon Clothing
Extant Frankish Clothing
Pre Viking - Early Period Clothing Finds
Food and Historical Recipes
What were Vikings commonly eating as food?
Archeological Botanical Food Finds in Britain
Archeological Botanical Food Finds in Britian - Viking
Historic Cook Books - From Roman to the 16th Century
Viking
Viking / Saxon Sewing Box
Viking Clothing Guides
What were Vikings commonly eating as food?
Archeological Botanical Food Finds in Britian - Viking
Viking Games Pieces & Boards
Varangian DNA
Varangian Voice Articles & On the Frontier Newsletter Articles
There are 6 Pages of Research here
Frontiers period : 17th - 19th Century Research - Here you will find
Timeline of Neckstocks and Cravats in the British Army
Extant Shoes & Boots - Summary of Finds from 17th century to 19th Century
Clothing Research
Historic Cook Books - From 17th to the 19th Century
On the Frontier Newletters
There are 11 Pages of Research here
Victorian & Military Railway Research - Here you will find
Victorian Railways
Victorian Railways Employee Records
Women of the Victorian Railways
Victorian Railways - Military
WW1 Victorian Railways Unit
Victorian Railways - WW1 Military Trains And Other Areas of Service
Victorian Railways Volunteer Regiment
Victorian Railways - WW1 Roll of Honours and Obituaries Lists
Victorian Railways - WW11 Rolls of Honour and Obituaries Lists
Victorian Railways WWII Ambulance Train
Upper Ferntree gully to Gembrook Narrow Gauge Line
Belgrave Timber Tramway
Off the Rails and around the Bend - The Train Derailment at Belgrave , Victoria in 1906
The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Railway - Building of the Line
Other Railway Military
The Edith Cavell locomotive
Note: Link to to the New website for it but it this is still a work in progress and some of the pages still need a lot of fix up work on them
Australian Women during WW1 - Here you will find
Australian
A Summary of Units in which Australian Women Served in during WW1
Australian Women Doctors who served in WW1
Australian Women who gave their lives in WW1
Other Research
Registration Lists of Victorian Nurses in the Victorian Government Gazette 1926 - 1958
New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood
WW1 Resources for Re-enactors
There are 7 Pages of Research here
Other Areas of Research - Here you will find
Gerald Ryan, Queensland's Mystery Abstract Artist
Underwater Explorers club of Victoria
Nurses After the War ( WW1 )
WW1 - info
Bearded Soldiers of WW1
WW1 Red Cross Men
WW1 Red Cross Units Photos
WW1 Useful Information
Back ground to this Research
In 1984 with the birth of our first child, I started researching Our family History ... this lead to me helping to start the Narre Warren & District Family History Group with Carol Llewelyn and Lorriane Taylor.
In 1995 my husband Gary and I took up historical re-enactment this lead to a journey of researching and then re-creating items of equipment and clothing that we needed in our portrayals. We then got to a point where other club members started to ask us for help and information about what we were making. So then I stated to publish my research notes . Over the years We have done many Historical period of Time from Ancient Greek to WW1 ... well that lead to all the Research on all those Time Periods
You can see some of the projects that we created and the research notes on what they were based on our Thatshim & Indunna Historical Portfolio website :
In 2005 to 2008 I worked as a Specialist Incursion History Presenter for History UpClose and as they wanted to develop a WW1 program. I was asked to research what Australian Women did during WW1 ... well that lead to all the Research on Women's services in WW1
In 2015 I started volunteering at Puffing Billy Railway and the Railway's Museum at Menzies Creek ... well that lead to all the Research on The Railways stuff
We are not makers of history.
We are made by history.
Martin Luther King
1st Published : 20 Oct 2011 Page Updated: 16 Sept 2020 © Looking for the Evidence : Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )
Looking for The Evidence by Jennifer Baker
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