We’re only just recovering from the biggest event of the year – the August Bank Holiday muster at Compton Verney in the Warwickshire countryside! Congratulations to Sergeant Major General Philip Skippon’s Regiment of Foote for a great event, which took place in the grounds of the beautiful Grade I listed mansion, which now houses an…
When: 3-4 June 2022 Where: Basing Common, Redbridge Lane, Old Basing, Basingstoke RG24 7HB Free entry. Experience one of the iconic sieges of the Civil Wars with The Sealed Knot. It had it all – multiple sieges, a plot, personalities and celebrities of the day, triumph and disaster, and outrage. Basing House, typified the doggedness…
When: Sunday 28 August – Monday 29 August 2022 Where: Home Farm, Compton Verney, Warwick, CV35 9BX The highlight event of the year over the August Bank Holiday, commemorating the first major battle of the English Civil War in 1642. The Battle of Edgehill will be brought to life with a major battle of musket,…
When: 17-18 April 2022 Where: West Woodlands Showground, Frome, Somerset Dive into history with this Easter weekend event! Organised by Sir William Waller’s Brigade of The Sealed Knot reenactment society, this first event of the 2022 season will see Cavaliers and Roundheads do battle over two days in a spectacular reenactment weekend at West Woodland…
Chastleton House is a delight for anyone interested in history, let alone 17th Century history. The Jacobean country house near Moreton-in-Marsh in Oxfordshire was built between 1607 and 1612 for Walter Jones (born 1550), whose family’s success in the wool business allowed him to make his fortune from the law – he rose from being the town clerk…