Recreating the past for live events, TV and film
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2008
Its going to be our busiest season to date! Check out our complete 2008 event listing!
If you are interested in visiting or us arranging an event or events on your behalf, please contact us at your earliest convenience for a no obligation chat.
2007
Click for our full 2007 event listings. Highlights included:
Osterley through the ages, 6-7 May at Osterley Park, London
The Colchester Military Festival, 16-17 June at Abbey Field, Colchester
The Colchester Chariot Spectacular, 17 June at Abbey Field, Colchester
Clumber Park in the age of elegance, 23-24 June at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Sutton Hoo through the ages, 14-15 July
at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
On the Home Front 1939-45, 18-19 August at Rufford Country Park, Nottinghmshire
The Sheffield Fayre, 26-27 August at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
Blasts from the Past, 8-9 September at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
Dockyard 800, 15-16 September at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Don't miss this great season of live events!
2006
Click for details
of our 2006 programme.
Major highlights included:
Against all odds - the final of Newark, 1646 in Newark, Nottinghamshire (left)
Rufford through the ages at Rufford Country Park
The Colchester Military Festival at Abbey Field, Colchester
The Sheffield Fayre at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
Blasts from the Past at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
2005
Click for details of our 2005 programme. There were many highlights, but our favourites were probably:
Rufford through the Ages
- history comes to life
at Rufford Country Park (left)
Codename “Hillside” - Hughenden Manor in World War II at Hughenden Manor
60 years on at Basingstoke War Memorial Park
The Colchester Military Festival at Abbey Field, Colchester
History in the Park at Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Feltham
Huntingdon 800 at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
The Jane Austen Fayre at the Walled Garden, Basingstoke
The Sheffield Fayre at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
and Blasts from the Past at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
Not to mention our ambitious Roman Army, gladiator and chariot racing project at Jerash in Jordan. It was quite a year!
2004
Check out our
full 2004 events programme,
which grew to be
twice as large as 2003's. Click for
details!
Highlights included:
Soldiers through the Ages at the Colchester Military Festival (left)
History in the Park at Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Feltham
The Jane Austen Fayre at the Walled Garden, Basingstoke
The Sheffield Fayre at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
and Blasts from the Past at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
2003
Highlights
included:
A medieval and civil war living history weekend on 14-15 June at Old Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire
Invasion 2003, on 9-10 August at High woods Country Park, Colchester.
The Sheffield Fayre, on 13-14 September, at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
The Siege of Bolingbroke Castle and Battle of Winceby commemoration, on 10-12 October, at Bolingbroke Castle and Winceby battlefield , Lincolnshire.
We also arranged four events for Caldicot Castle, South Wales, and took part in a Victorian Christmas living history schools' event at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire.
2002
Our
second year presenting events featured:A mini living history weekend on 15-16 June at Old Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire
Our
first year and a very exciting one too, with:
A living history day on 9 June at the Ancient High House, Stafford.
The Battle of Orgreave, on 17 June at Orgreave, South Yorkshire.
The 1000 year fair, on 21-22 July at Stafford Castle, Staffordshire.
Mini events at Odds Farm park, Buckinghamshire.
A brief history of re-enactment
Interested in how and why re-enactment has become so popular? Click on the link to read a history of re-enactment.
Updated 21 January 2008