| 17th Century Life and Times | Chris Poore
216 Powder Mill Lane
Twickenham
Middlesex
England
TW2 6EJ
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Email : cavalier@17thcenturylifeandtimes.com | We are a living history / small skirmish re-enactment society who specialise in being up close to the public. Character role play and a diversity of both military and civilian roles are encouraged.We have very high authenticity standards and put on shows at some of the most picturesque castles and manor houses in the UK. New members of all ages are welcome and we are family friendly group! |
| American Civil War Society | Mike Bussey
P O Box 52
Brighouse
West Yorkshire
England
HD6 1JQ
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| Blew Regiment LTB, The | Steve Rabbitts
27 Belmont Road
Greys
Essex
England
RM17 5YJ
Tel : 01375 405378
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Email : info@blews-ltb.co.uk | The Blew Regiment is part of the Sealed Knot Society, which was formed to recreate the desperate times of the English Civil Wars. Our regiment is part of the Parliament Army as was it historical predecessor, and we are proud of our attempt to present as nearly as possible, something of the appearance of an actual Infantry Regiment of the period 1640/1650. |
| Caledonian Historical Reenactment Soc | Robert Redmond
801 S. Summit
El Dorado
Butler
California
U.S.A.
67042
Tel : 1 316 323 5848
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Email : mylordofalba@aol.com | We are a small group doing combat displays and we have a sword maker in the clan who can make anything that is needed by membersand for anyone who wants to buy from us. We are looking for more members as well and we are still trying to build up the fair in our city. So any Traders who would like to join in and help us to make it all happen please call us. Our time line is Roman to 1745 Scotland. |
| Chepstowe Garrison, The | Rebecca Gilchrist
18 Pont-y-Mason Clos
Rogerstone
Newport
Wales
NP10 9HG
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Email : garrison@chepstowe.co.uk | The Chepstowe Garrison is a Multi-period Living History Group based in Chepstow Castle, South Wales. Members are free to choose their own preferred time period within the history of Chepstow Castle. Characters may be of any station, from peasant to Lord. With relevant knowledge, equipment and training you can protray anyone from a Norman stonemason to a Victorian tourist, a Welsh Archer to a member of the "Home Guard". New members are always welcome. |
| Chepstowe Garrison, The | Rebecca Gilchrist
18 Pont-y-Mason Clos
Rogerstone
Newport
Wales
NP10 9HG
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Email : garrison@chepstowe.co.uk | The Chepstowe Garrison is a Multi-period Living History Group based in Chepstow Castle, South Wales. Members are free to choose their own preferred time period within the history of Chepstow Castle. Characters may be of any station, from peasant to Lord. With relevant knowledge, equipment and training you can protray anyone from a Norman stonemason to a Victorian tourist, a Welsh Archer to a member of the "Home Guard". New members are always welcome. |
| Claymore Re-enactment Group The | Alan Magnus-Bennett
2 New Cottages
Broughton Hackett
Worcester
Worcestershire
England
WR7 4BB
Tel : 01905 381703
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Email : a.magnus-bennett@worc.ac.uk | We are a group of 18th century re-enactors specialising in living history, sword display and musket drill. We represent the Jacobite period of 1745. We pay particular attention to our Highland costume and its historical detail. As such we are also a part of the Lacewars Re-enactment Society http://www.lacewars.co.uk/ and form up as the Clan Stewart of Appin which played an important part in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. |
| Col. Henry Tillier's Regiment of Foote | John Machate
5416 Hildebrand
Court
Columbia
Maryland
U.S.A.
21044
Tel : 410-740-9240
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Email : jmachate@thunderpaw.com | The online HQ of the Anglo-Irish regiment commanded by Col. Henry Tillier 1643 - 1645.
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| Confederation of the Thirty Years War | Dave Allan
5 Willis Way
Purton
Wiltshire
England
SN5 4BD
Tel : 01793-771297
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(m) : 07880-743868
Email : daveat30yearswar@aol.com | A Society set up to cover the European conflict from 1620 to 1650 known as the 30 years war. Also now covering from 1580 known as the Dutch 80 years war! Mainly organising events in Europe - 2003 in the Netherlands at Bourtange Fortress. |
| Cut & Thrust The Schoole of Defence | Stuart Huntley
8 Somerset Cresent
Stoke Gifford
Bristol
Bristolshire
England
BS34 8PP
Tel : 01454 774993
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(m) : 07949-195026
Email : stuart@schooleofdefence.co.uk | We aim to encourage interest into European Martial Arts with demonstrations of swordplay showing the techniques and weapons employed in the sword schools of Europe. We study original fighting techniques as described in the early manuals, give lectures, run workshops for re-enactors and provide public displays for groups such as English Heritage. |
| Earl of Manchesters Regiment of Foote | David Oxley
3 Hampton Road
Blackpool
Lancashire
England
FY4 1JB
Tel : 01253 298131
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Email : the-oxleys@supanet.com | Parlimentary Regiment of The Sealed Knot. We have a strong base in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Worcestershire. We are mainly a family based Regiment with many children involved in our activities. |
| English Civil War Society of America | Bob Giglio
5732 Goldfinch Court
Ellicott City
Maryland
U.S.A.
21043
Tel : 410-465-7688
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Email : ECWCaptain@aol.com | An ECW re-enactment society in the US (not afffiliated with the ECWS in UK except spiritually). The ECWSA holds events throughout North America, mainly in the spring and fall months. The ECWSA has both Royalist and Parliamentarian units. |
| English Civil War Society, The | Jonathan Taylor
70 Hailgate
Howden
Goole
East Yorkshire
England
DN14 7ST
Tel : 01430 430695
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Email : press@english-civil-war-society.org | From its earliest days, the flexible structure of the English Civil War Society has enabled it to offer 17th century historical re-enactment to suit the needs of any event organiser. We are able to stage displays that range in size and complexity from a few members mustering on a village green to spectacular battles with hundreds of soldiers on each side, supported by cavalry, artillery and camp-followers. |
| Fairfax Battalia (ECWS), The | Paul Meekins
Valentines
Long Marston
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
England
CV37 8RG
Tel : 01789 722434
Fax : 01789 722434
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Email : paul@paulmeekins.co.uk | The Fairfax Battalia is a re-enactment group recreating military and civilian life of a company of soldiers from a period of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Consisting of the regiments of Nicholas Devereux, John Foxe, Robert Overton and
Valentine Walton it's members of the battalia are spread far and wide; from as afar as Aberdeen and Plymouth. We have a very strong and growing civilian section covering many aspects of seventeenth century life. |
| Fire and Sword | Hugh Robertson
50 Crossdene Road
Kilmarnock
Ayreshire
Scotland
KA2 0JX
Tel : 01563 529849
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(m) : 0797 355 1615
Email : sir.hugo@btinternet.com | Formed over 10 years ago to recreate the Scottish soldier form 12th century through to 18th Century. 6 full plate armour Knights , Horses, excellent medieval pavillions, full contact combat team, archers, muskets, jacobite and redcoats , glorious revolution and covenant period. Over 50 television documentaries in ten years. |
| Gothic Green Oak | Jon Hather
Cefn Gorwydd
LLangammard Wells
Powys
Wales
LD4 4DL
Tel : 01591 610512
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Email : jon@gothicgreenoak.co.uk | Hand made authentic period board games, dice, playing cards and clay marbles from Viking through to Napeolonic times. |
| Guild of Gentry and Allied Skills | Jeff Parker
10 St. Johns Row
Long Wittenham
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
England
OX14 4QG
Tel : 01865 407511
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(m) : 07840 892648
Email : info@thegasco.org | The Guild specialises in third-person interpretive living history events at which it portrays domestic life in the period just before the Civil Wars of the 1640s. We have over 10 years of experience of working sensitively within heritage sites, including those managed by the National Trust and English Heritage. |
| Guild of Historical Interpreters, The | Eleanor McGann
32 Barleyfields
Witham
Essex
England
CM8 2FD
Tel : 01376 511345
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Email : eleanor@the-guild.org | The group offers interpretation of the impact of Roman lifestyles on tribal groups please note change of contact details and new website. Old links no longer valid. |
| Guild, The |
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Email : eleanor@the-guild.org | The Guild is a small and friendly association of history buffs, both professional and amateur. We bring history from the Iron Age to the early 20th century to life in historical sites, museums, schools, filmwork and elsewhere. |
| John Bright's Regiment of Foote | Tony Cullen
31b Armstrong Road
Englefield Green
Egham
Surrey
England
TW20 0RW
Tel : 01784-438414
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Email : the.cullens@ntlworld.com | Bright's are a Regiment of the Roundhead Association in the English Civil War Society. |
| Major General Ralph Asshetons Company | Paul Younger
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Email : asshetons@younger.freeserve.co.uk | A Roundhead unit of the English Civil War Society. Based in Northern England, taking part in Battle Reenactments and Living Histories all over the UK and Europe.
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| Marquess of Winchesters Regiment, The | David Ashbolt
25 Hanborough Close
Eynsham
Witney
Oxfordshire
England
OX29 4NR
Tel : 01865 880455
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Email : david.ashbolt@ntlworld.com | A Regiment of the English Civil war Society, re-enacting the military and social aspects of the ECW. The events we stage range from a Major Battle to a small drill display. |
| Medical Practitioners LHG | Will Styles
19 Sedbergh Park
Ilkley
West Yorkshire
England
LS29 8SZ
Tel : 01943-608306
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Email : Chirurgeons-owner@yahoogroups.com | Living History Medical Practitioners (Physicians, Leeches, Quacks, Surgeons, Sawbones, Apothecaries, Cunning Women & Men, Midwives, Toothdrawers (Kindhearts), Bonesetters, Horse gelders, Bloodletters (Phlebotamists), Herbalists, Stillroom Mistresses etc) prior to the discovery of antibiotics. To swop good ideas, exchange equipment, names of manufacturers and to share research and sources. Open to re-enactors and those who are interested in our hobby. Not SCA and Not 21C Medical but all are welcome. |
| Merlet | Roman Spacil
Beranovych 65
Prague 9
Czeck Republic
190 00
Tel : +420 23 431 2597
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(m) : +420 602 376 237
Email : info@merlet.cz | |
| Misericordia | Anne Marie Summers
1 Rose Cottage
Bedstone
Bucknell
Craven Arms
Shropshire
England
SY7 0BE
Tel : 01547 530822
Fax :
(m) : 07910 461703
Email : misericordia@misericordiamusic.co.uk | As well as performing at concert venues and early music festivals, Misericordia travel through Britain and Europe (with authentic costume and medieval tent) to fairs, festivals, castles and halls; we also play as minstrels for authentic medieval banquets. Like all our music, music for historical events is skilfully played on a wide range of authentic instruments, including hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, gothic harp, citole, recorders and percussion. |
| Na Degad | Niall Murray
County Cork
Ireland
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Email : na_degad@hotmail.com | Na Degad are an Irish reenactment group who cover the Hiberno-Norse warbands of the Viking era but we primarily strive to portray a Medieval Irish Army (Galloglaich, Kern, Hobilars) of 1350-1550 |
| Northland Mercenaries Ltd |
33 Stanley Gardens
Herne Bay
Kent
England
CT6 3SQ
Tel : 01227 360891
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| Pike and Musket Society, The | Lee Dunn
PO Box 39
Hornsby
New South Wales
Australia
2077
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Email : routiers@mgw.com.au | We concentrate on the Trained Bands of London during the period of the English Civil War. Even more specifically, the Second Captains Company of the Green Band in 1642.
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| Scabius Corpus | Vivien Goodwin
Heidi Cottage
Rallt Newydd
Holyhead
Wales
LL65 2TJ
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(m) : 07887 990054
Email : scabiuscorpus@hotmail.com | By popular demand we infect Villages, Towns and Cities with Black Death and Leprosy and anything else we catch. We come with our own spare parts. |
| School of Defence, The | Mike Ray
38 Windsor Avenue
Lancaster
Lancashire
England
LA1 4BE
Tel : 01542 37275
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Email : info@schoolofdefence.com | The School of Defence is Britain’s leading group teaching the Western Combat Tradition. The School continues the teachings of the Masters of Defence and researches the historical background of combat in Europe. The result - historically relevant combat techniques and a practical method of self-defence that are combined to produce entertaining and informative demonstrations. |
| Sealed Knot, The |
Tel : 01384-295939
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Email : info@sealedknot.org | 17th Century English Civil War re-enactment Society. |
| Siege Group, The | Ron Fletcher
77 Atherstone Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
England
LE11 2SH
Tel : 01509-556596
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Email : info@siegegroup.co.uk | A small 17th century re-enactment group with up to 150 members, portraying sieges and skirmishes, together with living history and role-play in small castles and manor houses in England. Mainly based on the local history of each venue from the English civil war period. |
| Sir Bevill Grenviles Regiment of Foote | Joseph Miles
16 Langport Road
Long Sutton
Langport
Somerset
England
TA10 9ND
Tel : 01458-241402
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Email : | Sir Bevill Grenviles Regiment foote is a Royalist regiment raised in Cornwall by Sir Bevill and fought for Charles The first in his action against Parliament and Cromwell. They were often in the thick of the fighting and acquited themselves well on many occasions. The Regiment is run on family lines and members enjoy an informative happy invironment. The regiment is composed of Artilley, Pike, Musketeers and caterers for Apprentices being trained for either arm. |
| Sir George Lisle's Regiment |
130 Glenthorne Road
West Jesmond
Newcastle
Tyne & Wear
England
NE2 3HJ
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Email : pwisken@aol.com | An English Civil War Re-enactment Group: A Royalist Regiment of the Sealed Knot. |
| Sir Gilbert Hoghtons Regiment of Foote | Andy Miles
5 Sandy Hollow
Compton
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
England
WV6 8LF
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Email : webmaster@hoghtons.co.uk | This is the website for Sir Gilbert Hoghtons Companie of Foote. Hoghtons is a royalist regiment in The Sealed Knot Society. We re-enact battles from the 17th century English Civil War. |
| Sir Henry Vaughans Company | Simon Jarvis
Bron Haul
Penlan Road
Camarthen
Carmarthenshire
Wales
SA31 1DN
Tel : 01267 238151
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(m) : 07929 870885
Email : VaughanSK@glassmail.net | Sir Henry Vaughan raised red coated troops from the trained bands of the 3 Western Counties of Wales - Pembrokeshire , Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, and marched them to the Oxford Army. Now Sir Henry Vaughans Company have been founded to raise fresh forces from the Nursery of the Kings Infantry to fight with Prince Ruperts Tertio of the Sealed Knot, and to bring the History of the Stuart period to Life again. |
| Sir Henry Vaughans Company | Simon Jarvis
Bron Haul
Penlan Road
Camarthen
Carmarthenshire
Wales
SA31 1DN
Tel : 01267 238151
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(m) : 07929 870885
Email : VaughanSK@glassmail.net | Sir Henry Vaughan raised red coated troops from the trained bands of the 3 Western Counties of Wales - Pembrokeshire , Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, and marched them to the Oxford Army. Now Sir Henry Vaughans Company have been founded to raise fresh forces from the Nursery of the Kings Infantry to fight with Prince Ruperts Tertio of the Sealed Knot, and to bring the History of the Stuart period to Life again. |
| Sir John Owens Companye of Foote | Mike Harrison
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Email : sirjohnowen@yahoo.co.uk | Sir John Owen's Companye of Foote were raised in North Wales, but with men from Cheshire and Shropshire in its ranks, due to Sir John's family connections. Since the regiment campaigned all over England subsequent casual recruits would have come in from as far afield as Cornwall and Northamptonshire |
| Sir William Wallers Regiment of Horse | Ted Lewis
Brow Edge Farm
Cribdenside
Haslingden
Rossendale
Lancashire
England
Tel : 01706-216633
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Email : stephenandsue@tiscali.co.uk | Wallers is the Parliamentarian cavalry of the Sealed Knot, and also has a mounted dragoon troop. We specialise in portraying an accurate representation of ECW cavalry and cavalry drill in both displays and battles, and have a strong Living History element. We have members spread throughout the UK. |
| Squeake's Noyse | Thor Ewing
1 Rose Cottage
Bedstone
Bucknell
Craven Arms
Shropshire
England
SY7 0BE
Tel : 01547 530822
Fax :
(m) : 07910 461703
Email : thor@historicalarts.co.uk | As well as performing at concert venues and early music festivals, Misericordia travel through Britain and Europe (with authentic costume and medieval tent) to fairs, festivals, castles and halls; we also play as minstrels for authentic medieval banquets. Like all our music, music for historical events is skilfully played on a wide range of authentic instruments, including hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, gothic harp, citole, recorders and percussion. |
| Telling History | Maureen James
15 Darthill Road
March
Cambridgeshire
England
PE15 8HP
Tel : 01354 650586
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Email : tellinghistory@btinternet.com | After many years experience of working in historical interpretation Maureen chose, in 2001 to specialise in telling historical stories. A qualified teacher, with an MA in Museums and Galleries in Education, she believes passionately in the value of creating empathy to help people to understand the past and in the importance of story to this process. She regularly works in museums, castles, stately homes and at heritage sites with audiences of all ages. She has clothing and stories in her repertoire relating to most historical periods from the Iron Age to modern times. |
| The Marcher Stuarts | Marion Davies
46, Beaumaris Drive,
Llanyrafon,
Cwmbran.
Gwent
Wales
NP44 8JA
Tel : 01633 482780
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Email : marmill@marmill321.plus.com | We are a happy group of 17th Century living history & military enthusiasts, who perform at venues throughout the country, be it at castles, manor houses, museums or at small fetes. Some of our members also enjoy the medieaval period. We have musketeers, cannoniers, archers, swordsmen as well as craftspeople, musicians and general dogsbodies. If you would like to join us, a warm welcome awaits you. If you would like to hire us, book early. We are in demand. |
| War of The Three Kingdoms Society | Hugh Logan
13 Calhame Road
Ballyclare
Antrim
Northern Ireland
BT39 9NA
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Email : hwloga@yahoo.co.uk | We are a new group based in Ireland recreating the lives of members of the Three Kingdoms of Ireland, Scotland and England who lived and fought in Ireland during the 1640's. We are affiliated to the English Civil War Society and are part of Colonel Devereux's Regiment and the Fairfax Battalia.
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| Wardour Garrison Living History Society | Kate Dalton
9 Radcliff Road
Sailsbury
Wiltshire
England
SP2 8EH
Tel : 01722 320363
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Email : ckeandj@ntlworld.com | The Garrison is a Living History group known for its friendliness, attention to authenticity and quality of events. It usually occupies a historic site and for the duration has a story line based on the site running through the weekend. It combines civilian and military life and so provides an exciting event for promoters. Never exceeding 99 mambers it is a familly friendly group that operates mainly in southern/southwest England and South Wales. New members experienced or vigin re-enactors always considered. |
