Recreating the past for live events, TV and film
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2010
Its already looking to be an extremely busy season, including multi-period highlight events such as Blasts from the Past at Broadlands on 7-8 August! Check out our current 2010 event listings.
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.
2009
Another successful season with a very full programme of events. Some of the highlights included:
Our new Grand historical Bazaars held in April at Wimpole Hall and Rufford Abbey Country Park. Historical "bring and buys" that re-enactors and historical traders rated as huge successes.
Tall Ships 09 (incorporating Gloucester through the ages) at the City of Gloucester on 30-31 May, with around 30,000 visitors present.
Wartime Clumber on 13-14 June. over 12,000 visited picturesque Clumber Park during this annual 1940s event.
The Colchester Military Festival weekend on 18-19 July, with over 30,000 visitors present.
On the Home Front, 1939-45 at Rufford Abbey Country Park. 7,000 flocked to this popular event, a record for the park.
Our seventh year at The Sheffield Fayre on August Bank holiday was perhaps our best to date with around 20,000 people enjoying a spectacular programme of displays.
And much more besides. Please check the full listings for details.
2008
Our busiest season to date! Click for our complete 2008 event listing! Highlights included:
Gloucester through the ages, 19-20 April, in the City of Gloucester
Medieval life, archery and combat, 17-18 May at Rufford Abbey Country Park
Wartime Clumber, 21-22 June, at Clumber Park Nottinghamshire
Osterley through the ages, 19-20 July, at Osterley Park, London
Meet your Navy, 25-27 July at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire
Sutton Hoo through the ages, 9-10 August at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
On the Home Front, 1939-45, 16-17 August, at Rufford Abbey Country Park, Nottinghamshire
The Sheffield Fayre, 24-25 August, at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield
Sherwood through though the ages, 27-28 September, at Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire
Pirates!, 25-26 October, at Gloucester Docks
2007
Click for our full 2007 event listings. Highlights included:
Osterley through the ages at Osterley Park, London
The Colchester Military Festival at Abbey Field, Colchester
The Colchester Chariot Spectacular at Abbey Field, Colchester
Clumber Park in the age of elegance at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Sutton Hoo
through the ages
at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
On the Home Front 1939-45 at Rufford Country Park, Nottinghmshire
The Sheffield Fayre at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield (left)
Blasts from the Past at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
Dockyard 800 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Sherwood through though the ages at Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire
Tall ships 07 at Gloucester Docks
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 30 October 2008