Welcome
Historical consultants tScapreel are a small information and design business based in Dordrecht, Nederland run by Henk and Pauline 't Jong. We have been active for 15 years in the Dutch (and Belgian) heritage sector. We advise town councils, museums, heritage centres, historians, archaeologists, art-historians, authors and the media on matters cultural and historical. We possess extensive knowledge about daily life between 1 AD to 1700 AD and many other customs, crafts and cultural activities. If you want to know about historic dress, food and drink, home interiors, arms and armour, architecture, heraldry, pottery and household items ours is the place to contact. We can offer you information on all of them, but we are also able to provide you with replicas of these items for exhibitions, presentations and decoration purposes.
Besides this we can do research for (art) historians in Dutch archives and libraries, museums and other heritage institutes. As an MA in medieval history (Leiden 2009) and a historic consultant for about 20 years Henk is well versed in the research needed for papers and dissertations about medieval and other historical subjects. Foreign languages, and especially English, are no problem and neither is paleography.
Pauline is a fount of knowledge about the practical side of historic cooking and Henk is also a writer, (graphic) designer and heraldist with over 30 years experience. Especially authors of historical novels or filmscripts may have a use for our very down to earth knowledge of such elusive things as living in medieval houses and castles, the practical wearing of historic dress, of travelling and hygiene, sickness and health, religion and art, mentality and justice.
People from all over the world may contact us via e-mail or phone (see contact) or, of course, by letter. Our fees are very reasonable but we do have very special fields of expertise so clearly we are not really cheap. Ask for them before you commission us to do a job for you.