I’ve noticed that in all your books you refer quite specifically to how equipment, clothes etc. feel and behave in various weathers and conditions. Is this a case of informed conjecture/imagination, or have you spoken to re-enactors? I ask because as a food historian (and re-enactor; Celt,Roman and AngloSaxon) I have been asked many, many questions of that kind, “What does it taste like? How does that feel to wear?” and so on, and I know at least two of my questioners later used the information in books. By the way, I think your work is superb! Mari Hannigan