Professional historical event planning and management services - Superb live historical re-enactments to enjoy - Reconstructions for TV and film
- Corporate entertainment, school interpreters, children's parties and entertainment for period weddings
EventPlan Limited, 1 King Street, Seagrave, Leicestershire LE12 7LY. Tel: 01509 815645. Mobile: 07779 340108. Email: Admin@EventPlan.co.uk
This web site (last updated 3 March 2010) features our services to clients, event information and reports, photo galleries, articles, film extra application form and more. Click on any picture for an enlargement and explanatory text.
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EventPlan is delighted to be helping to raise funds for Help for Heroes. On 24-25 July we'll be staging Salute for Heroes at Glemham Hall, Suffolk, a fantastic weekend of military displays and multi-era re-enactments with all profits donated to the charity. Not to be missed! Please revisit for updated details, or contact us if you would like to participate as re-enactors, to trade or to exhibit.
On Tuesday 9th February EventPlan assisted the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Family Association (SSAFA) at their 125th anniversary appeal press launch and photo shoot, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. As requested we arranged and co-ordinated 40 top quality participants representing 1880s, Boer War, WWI, WWII and National Service era military and their dependants, who were joined by model Nell McAndrew and Chelsea Pensioners for a successful shoot with a larger than anticipated turnout from the press. Watch out for a report in a forthcoming issue of Skirmish magazine. SSAFA has played a vital role in assisting servicemen and their families in war and in peace since its formation in 1885, and continues to do so - please donate now to this extremely worthy organisation.
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Our web site is currently being designed. Watch out for the new version, coming shortly, including around 1000 excellent event photos (hundreds of them new), arranged by theme and historical era!
Who are we?
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EventPlan specialises in organising and co-ordinating excellent quality, efficiently-organised, affordable live historical events, re-enactments, interpretation and entertainments on behalf of clients around the UK and abroad; historical advice, scripting and narrating for live events, TV, film and DVD; first class historical reconstructions for TV and film including military and other on-set co-ordination, together with expert sourcing of specialist extras complete with clothing, uniform, weaponry and props; specialist event training services; historical characters, entertainments and displays for corporate hospitality events, themed weddings and children's parties; costumed historical talks including for schools, museums, clubs and special interest groups. We are extremely efficient, reliable, easy to get on with and always offer excellent value for money. Most of our work is derived from personal recommendation or repeat bookings, and each year we accept between fifteen and twenty projects of various themes and scale, from modest to extremely ambitious. The company is directed by Howard Giles, probably the most experienced historical event organiser in the UK, being responsible for over 5,000 successful events over 35 years. He created and for 16 years directed English Heritage's extensive events programme, wrote its manual, and enjoys a thorough understanding of the principles of event management including safety issues, budgeting, marketing, performers and using the ground to best artistic effect. Click for more about our company profile, clients & staff. |
Professional historical event planning and management services
Thinking
of staging an historical event or events? Want things to run smoothly and look great? Would you
like to "wow" your audiences so they want to come back again? Seize
the opportunity, ask the
experts and benefit from our huge experience gathered over 30 years of
highly successful historical event management! Clients usually ask us to create and manage the
performances while they concentrate your resources on ticketing,
infrastructure and other on-site requirements. But if you prefer, we can do
everything! For more information, please click the link for our
event planning and management services
Our wide ranging experience offers fantastic, problem-free events. From retraining ex-Jordanian army troops as Roman legionaries to restaging the Battle of Orgreave - the infamous 1984 clash between NUM miners and riot police, we've organised all sorts of very successful projects. Single era, multi-era, military and/or social, we can stage something creative and appropriate to your requirements. If you haven't staged an event before at your venue, contact us now for advice - we'll be open, honest and fair. With so much experience and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of performing groups, you can rely on us to offer you unbiased and effective advice. We can also help you to run your own event(s) by booking first class performers on your behalf. For examples of just some of what we can offer, click for details of our 2010 programme of events previous events, or photo galleries of previous events.
Superb live historical events for you to enjoy
Want to see history brought to life in spectacular fashion? Looking for high
quality historical events in picturesque locations? Wondering where to take the kids at the
weekend?
Click for details of our
2010 programme
of events - there's a huge variety of displays to enjoy,
including single
era events and our extremely popular multi-era
shows.
Here are just some of the things you can enjoy at various EventPlan shows: Warriors, soldiers, battles and skirmishes through the ages; parades; cavalry and equestrian displays; muskets, pikes and cannon; knights and men-at-arms in shining plate armour and in chain mail; archery; fashion through the ages; food and cookery; music, song and dance from the medieval era to the 1940s; tented encampments; pirates; maritime displays, historic ships and boats; military and classic vehicles; WWII aircraft; modern era military helicopters; camp followers and everyday life down the ages; Cowboys and Native Americans; puppet shows; have a go archery and other children's activities...and so much more! It's all out there waiting for you to experience them - EventPlan offers living history and re-enactment at its very best! Please click for more information or for a taste of things to come, check out our photo galleries of past events.
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ervices to TV and film
Historical Film Services is the TV and film division of EventPlan Limited. Chose us for accurate reconstructions, historical advice (particularly military history), supporting artistes and specialist extras, plus sourcing of cavalry, vehicles, clothing, uniform and weaponry.
We can save filmmakers enormous amounts of time, effort and money! Why waste time and money or risk expensive or embarrassing mistakes - can call in the experts! Want to see what we've achieved in the past? If you seek reliability, quality and historical authenticity, look no further. Years of experience allow us to instinctively pick the right specialist extras and/or suppliers for each project, so no mistakes and no embarrassments. We maintain an extensive database of skilled individuals, top groups and suppliers, making your life easier.
We also offer scripting, narration and on-screen presentation by military historian Howard Giles. With a lively yet evocative style, Howard has informed and entertained hundreds of thousands of visitors watching live re-enactments all over the country, as well as scripting and narrating videos and DVDs.
Specialist extras, re-enactors and other performers are invited to find out more about joining our extras' database. To view the Historical Film Services web site full screen without the EventPlan navigation bar, please go directly to www.historicalfilmservices.com.
Other services
Click for more about Corporate hospitality, entertainment for themed weddings and children's parties, interpretation for museums and schools & event training for venue staff.
A brief history of re-enactment
Historical re-enactment as we know it today is a relatively recent development, only commencing in the UK during the late 1960s. Despite this it has become hugely popular with audiences and participants alike, becoming a well-known visitor attraction, particularly at historic houses and castles. If you are interested in how and why living history and re-enactment has become so popular in recent years, read our history of re-enactment. Or click for other concise historical articles including the causes and course of the English Civil War, the American Civil War, and The Battle of Orgreave 1984.
Re-enactors, other performers and traders
If you
would like to know more about participating in EventPlan shows, and filming projects, please click here. Traders: please click for 2010 trading opportunities.EventPlan gratefully acknowledges Phil Lowes for originally designing this site, the photographers who generously allowed us use of their images and of course, all the historical performers featured.
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We hope that you find our web site interesting, informative and useful. Comments are always welcome, and if you come across a broken link or some other problem, please do contact us so we can take remedial action.
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Explore the EventPlan
web site Just in case your PC doesn't support frames..... Click here for a complete list of and links to all sections of the site, simplifying exploration of its full content, or use the key links below:
News - the latest on our current projects Events - our live events, past, present and future 2010 programme of events - our programme of events for the coming season Trading opportunities - pitch fees and booking details for traders and caterers Terms and conditions for participation in our events - for performing groups/individuals Our safety policy - how we rate safety as our top priority Event planning and management - the different types of historical events that we can stage, and our other services to historic houses, castles, town festivals and event venues Services to TV & Film - what we can do to assist TV and film productions, including reconstructions and specialist extras Schools and museums - interpretation and talks to suit every occasion Costumed talks - historical talks for clubs, societies and special interest groups Corporate hospitality - historical entertainment for your clients
Children's Parties - have-a-go activities and displays for the kids to enjoy Training Services - how we can train staff to host and organise historical events Re-enactors' page - information for the many re-enactors and performers that take part in or watch our events Details of and application form for the our Extras' Database - become a specialist historical extra for film and TV! Galleries - hundreds of photographs of past events and filming projects to explore and enjoy Articles - some concise historical articles from the history of Bolingbroke Castle to the American Civil War The Battle of Orgreave - an account of the infamous clash between Arthur Scargill's NUM and the Police during the 1984 miners' strike, and how EventPlan recreated it in a ground breaking live re-enactment for Channel 4 in June 2001 A History of re-enactment - how the hobby of re-enactment began, and how it developed in the UK Explore this site - EventPlan's web site fully listed by subject, with links to every page |
Updated 3 March 2010
