Saturday, 30 January 2010

World's first caterpillar tracks (1908)

Shot in Grantham Lincolshire. This has got to be the way to travel to a Steampunk festival!

Thursday, 28 January 2010

The Great War - World War 1 / Partie 1 : La Belgique martyrisée

Boer War

The Sneaky Boer (1901)

Monday, 25 January 2010

The Great Locomotive chase

This event from the ACW inspired two movies - the General with Buster Keaton and a 1956 Disney film.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

Reenactors filming North and South

Short documentary on the use of reenactors in the 80s miniseries North and South - this sequence about the battle of Churubusco in the Mexican-American war.

Enfield versus Springfield

Interesting piece on the differences between the firearms used in the Civil War.