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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 4 August 2008) 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.
This weekend! Head for Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk on 9-10 August for Sutton Hoo through the ages, for a highly enjoyable weekend of Late Roman to Norman and 1940s living history and displays at this world famous historical site. Historical traders: due to an unavoidable cancellation, there is one pitch left at this event. Please click for details.
Click for more information about our 2008 programme of events, our most ambitious to date!
Who are we?
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EventPlan is directed by Howard Giles, probably the most experienced historical event organiser in the UK, with thousands of successful events over 30 years to his credit. We work with a variety of prestige clients including the National Trust; British army; Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; city, county, borough and town councils. Like last year, we anticipate entertaining well over 100,000 visitors during 2008. We arrange and co-ordinate re-enactors & performers representing virtually every historical era for living history displays, battle re-enactments, multi-era "spectaculars", documentaries and films. We can organise live displays and entertainments of all sizes including for corporate hospitality events. We offer historical reconstructions and advice to both the event and TV/film industries, and specialist training for event venue staff. Choose EventPlan for top quality, affordable live historical events, re-enactments, interpretation and entertainments; event management; first class historical reconstructions for TV and film including military and other on-set co-ordination; expert sourcing of specialist walk-ons, supporting actors, re-enactors and extras, clothing, uniform, weaponry and props; historical advice, scripting and narrating for live events, TV, film and DVD; specialist event training services; costumed historical talks including for schools, museums clubs and special interest groups; historical characters and displays for corporate hospitality events, themed weddings and children's parties. We are efficient, reliable and offer excellent value for money. We are often approached as a result of personal recommendation or for repeat bookings, which we feel says a lot about how clients view us. Click for more about our company, including a list of our clients. |
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
2008 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; 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! For a taste of things to come, check out our photo galleries of past events.
Professional historical event planning and management services
Thinking of staging an
historical event or events? If so,
check out
our
event planning and management
services. Want things to run
smoothly and look great? Would you like to "wow" your audiences so they want to
come back again? Then ask the experts and benefit from a huge amount of
experience gathered over 30 years of highly successful historical event
management! We can create and manage the performances
while you can concentrate your resources on ticketing, infrastructure and other
on-site requirements. Or if you prefer, we can do everything!
Our wide ranging experience offers fantastic and 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.
We're a deliberately small, very customer-focused company, easy to work with, and excellent value for money. We always operate a careful safety policy at our events and performers are required to adhere to our Conditions of Participation, which also outline standards of authenticity and behaviour.
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.
Click for details of events past, present and future or for photo galleries of past events.
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ervices to TV and film
Choose Historical Film Services for accurate reconstructions, historical advice (particularly military history), supporting artistes and specialist extras, plus sourcing of cavalry, vehicles, props, clothing, equipment and weaponry.
Historical Film Services is the TV and film division of EventPlan Limited. 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? Check out our Credits. 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 here for more about Corporate hospitality, 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, a history of Bolingbroke Castle, and the American Civil War.
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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 Events 2008 - our programme of events this 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, and traders Our safety policy - how we rate safety as our top priority Event Services - 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 |
Re-enactors, other performers and traders
If you co-ordinate a re-enactment or performing group, please send us details of what you can offer, including photographs. We are always on the lookout for new and exciting displays to offer to our clients. Please check out our our Conditions of Participation Traders: please click for 2008 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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Updated 4 August 2008
