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Welcome to The West Kingdom History Project. This project is a place to help SCA members understand the history and traditions of the West Kingdom of the SCA, Inc. In addition, it is a place to see photographs, when they are provided, of people at events (putting names to faces, which is fun; seeing what people looked like way back when ...). This is a project that is intended to, and realistically should be, an ongoing project -- it should only really end when the King departs from His Throne, or death takes us, or the world ends. You know the drill. <g>
NOTE: You can upload
photographs directly to the History site. If you wish to donate photographs, please
see Submissions Guidelines.
Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page if you are concerned about copyright/photo issues ...
If you wish to send corrections for any photograph on this site, please send them to the Web Minister of the West Kingdom History Website (see Contact Information below ...)
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How To Use This History
The Calendar:
Above is a listing of SCA years, currently
ending at SCA LX (60). This is to give some expansion room, since it
doesn't look like the SCA is going away anytime soon.
The Who's Who Section:
Clicking on the "Who's Who" link will take you to an alphabet list. Click
on the first letter of a name you wish to look for. This will bring up a
list of names.
Clicking on the links will take you to the individual photographs associated with the individual link. In earlier versions these links were to thumbnail pages, now you are taken directly to the photograph.
The Local Branches Section:
The main page for this is a list of branches. Clicking on the names of the
branches will take you to a page with any historical information that is
known about that local branch (we are always looking for factual information
for these, if you were there and have useful facts about the beginnings of
a branch, please share!), and the general location (information taken
from The Page).
Arms of the Royalty of the West:
This is a place to see a Roll of Arms for all of the past royalty of the West
Kingdom. This includes former Principalities as well as current ones. It's
broken down into groups, as the number of images to download can really slow
down the load-time of a page ...
The Silly Side/Artifacts Sections:
These work in a similar fashion to the others, just click on the link from
the menu, and it should be self-evident what's up.
Scrolls
Much like others, links to specific scrolls in this case. The information
is sorted by artist (Scribe) and then by award recipient ...
Arts and Sciences
Very similar in layout/design as other parts of the site ... This
is a place to see various spiffy things people in the Kingdom
have made ...
Bardic Arts
There are many talented songwriters/poets in the West Kingdom,
this is a place to see the words that have been written by these
gentles ...
Photo Credits:
All photo credits are given on the full photo page. The reason they are
not on the thumbnail pages is that we anticipate that there will be
multiple contributors for any specific event and/or "People" page ...
Under Construction ...:
It is expected that this site will be "under construction"
on a fairly regular basis as photographs are submitted, etc.
If you submit something and it doesn't appear immediately, give
it a day or two ... (or longer, we may be on vacation or something ...).
Finally ...:
This site was designed with the idea that you may wish to print
a page or two, and rather than playing with lots of colors and/or other
fancy features found on many websites, this one is mostly in black and
white (except for photographs, and some of those are black and white).
Explanation of "Why Simple Technology ..." and nothing
really fancy is used for this website.
Questions, Suggestions, Help, Corrections ...
If you have a question, suggestion, or would like to assist with this
project, you can contact Hirsch by clicking on the link below. It will bring
up your email program. Questions can be about any aspect of the site,
suggestions for improvements are definitely taken in the spirit they are
meant, and help is always appreciated. As errors are easy to make,
any corrections are cheerfully accepted, including broken links,
incorrect information on pages ... (please provide details ...).
Disclaimer/Copyright Issues:
This is not an official website of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., or
the Kingdom of the West of the S.C.A., Inc. It was created for,
and is used for the populace of the West Kingdom and the S.C.A.
to see and understand the history of this organization. No profit
is being made from this website by the web minister, or by
the owner of the host server.
The photographs on this site are used with good faith that contributions were made with permission of the photographer. For copyright issues please contact Hirsch -- all efforts will be made to resolve them. All other contributions are from the person(s) who created them (specifically the Bardic pages, and the images of the royalty's arms).
As this site is not an official website, it does not fall under the S.C.A.'s
"Photographer and Subject Permission Policy". Note, however, that the S.C.A.'s current
policy is so close to the standard policy used by the minister of this website
that there is pretty much no difference at this time. (From the SCA
website:
Photographs and Portrait-Style Artwork
"Web pages containing photographic images or portrait-style artwork must contain a clear and obvious means by which the subject(s) of the image may contact the web minister to request the removal of any image in which the subject(s) appear. Should the Web Minister receive such a removal request the image must be removed from the site, or the image must be modified in such a way as to render the subject unrecognizable. Such modification may only be made with the permission of the copyright holder. If such permission is not obtained, the image must be removed from the site. Upheld (as revised) February 24, 2002 – Conference Call Meeting (II.B, remanded from 1-19-02 meeting, VI.G.3)" )
The web minister of the West Kingdom History Website's standard policy since the
creation of this site is:
If you you are the photographer for a photo on this site, or if you are a subject of a photo on this site, and do NOT wish that photograph to be displayed here, please contact me and I will remove it. Note that this has to be a photo that you are IN or are the photographer FOR, or a piece of YOUR work (you can't ask that someone else's song be removed from the site, for example).
Credits: Credits are given for each photographer and each contributor, but they are not given on the thumbnail pages -- they are on the 'full photo' page.
Also note that credits on the Coppermine photo galleries (as of summer, 2012) are whatever are put there by the person(s) who upload the photos. There is a place to put the name of the photographer if not the uploader, but there is no requirement that this be filled in ... (you are encouraged to do so, however!). I would prefer that proper credit be given to the appropriate persons. The same disclaimer exists above though -- if it is your work, or you are in the photo, and you wish it removed, individual photos CAN be removed.
Special note: Kingdom Arms, Populous Badge, "Chicken Man" (and other drolleries), and Illuminated Title used here are by Robin of Thornwood, © 2010 Robin Dorn, created specifically for the West Kingdom History site, used with her permission.
Special Note: Video provided by Hal Ravn is accompanied by this notice:
Permission is hereby given to the West Kingdom History Project to use the contents of the DVD labeled "Hal Ravn, DVD-1" for
non-commercial purposes in support of the West Kingdom History Project. This permission includes posting the contents
to the Project sites that are part of the World Wide Web, and links to the material from other sites.
This grant of rights is non-exclusive.
Any copies of the DVD made for the allowed purpose, and any publically available access to the materials is to include the notice "Copyright, W. H. Heidt, 1977-2011".
All other rights are reserved to the copyright holder, except as may be granted in writing by the copyright holder at any time.
The West Kingdom History Website was created by and is maintained by .
Website © 2000-present, Ken Mayer; Photographs, songs and poetry © 1966-present by the photographers or artists (too many to list).