User:Nick Michael

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. fr-3 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances avancées en français. it-1 Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello elementare in italiano. de-0 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch nicht (oder versteht es nur mit beträchtlichen Schwierigkeiten).
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Me wearing an original 15th century Gothic breastplate, c.1470's

Me

I am English born and bred, but have lived in French-speaking Switzerland since 1971.

Interests

I am interested in a myriad of subjects, from antique arms and armour, philology and motor bikes to genealogy [1] [2] and cooking (historical and modern), but the following often take precedence in my life:
• German renaissance prints (particularly by the brothers Beham (Images/Info) and the Hopfer family (Images/Info);
• Renaissance music, particularly early keyboard music, and more particularly the English 'Virginalists': Byrd, Bull, Farnaby, Gibbons, Tomkins, Philips etc.;
• Early drinking glasses.
• Early diaries and travel journals.

My contributions

Click here to see my contributions of images to Commons.

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• English Wikipedia
• Simple Wikipedia
• Wiktionary

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No licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation I do not grant permission for the Wikimedia Foundation to relicense any of my contributions.

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else
I am content with licensing my contributions only under the GFDL. I believe that introducing other incompatible licenses complicates the legal situation of Wikipedia, so I choose not to do it.