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Further to the above, depending on the period you are interested in it’s also well worth checking out (in reverse chronological order…) Video footage, photographs, contemporary canvases, sketches, woodblock carvings, tapestries and illuminated manuscripts for guidance/inspiration.
Additionally, during Covid many museums and galleries started digitizing collections or increasing their online footprint, so these can also provide good reference material.
There was a pretty good summary article on heraldry in a recent issue of Wargames Illustrated (Issue 399/March 2021) but if you can’t chase down a copy then there are probably similar resources online or books available if you are looking at that period.
Also, terrain. Worth having a look at architecture in your preferred period/locale, and considering that many buildings can be ‘carried forward’ to later periods. ie German gothic half-timbered style buildings can be used for medieval, Peasants, War Thirty Years War, Napoleonics or 20th century at a push. Similarly, Tudor style half timber will do for War of the Roses through to ECW’s or later ‘alternative’ WW2 scenarios, or anything in Brittany/Normandy on the continent. You don’t have to do a ‘deep dive’ for this, just hit up wikipedia and pintrest for references if you are scratch building, if purchasing then the building probably does what it says on the tin 9 times out of 10 🙂
Finally, movies and TV series, as well as fictional novels or even historical records, can provide inspiration for scenarios. Just be aware that using movies and TV as reference for clothing worn in your particular period may or may not be historically accurate. Of course if you don’t mind and want your ‘heroic’ characters or units to stand out on the tabletop then go nuts 🙂