Marking 50 years of The Sealed Knot Where: Claydon House, Buckinghamshire When: 25-26 August This August, The Sealed Knot celebrates 50 years of bringing the English Civil War to life. Founded in 1968 by Brigadier Peter Young and still Britain’s largest single reenactment group, for five decades the society has commemorated this pivotal moment in…
To celebrate the 400th birthday of Elias Ashmole, founder of the world-famous Ashmolean Museum, King Charles I will parade through the streets of Oxford – with us as his guard! This Friday from 6.30pm, with standards advanced and drums beating, a parade of Civil War soldiers and officers will escort King Charles from Broad Street to…
The Queen’s Sconce has stood next to the town of Newark since 1644, when it formed part of the vast network of defences thrown up to protect this Royalist bastion from Parliamentarian forces. This July, the Sealed Knot will be returning to Newark to stage a battle reenactment on the sconce, one of the best-preserved English…
Experience a nation at war with itself in the Parliamentarian heartland of Northamptonshire! At Billing Aquadrome this Bank Holiday weekend, cannon will roar and musketeers will volley as an all action battle unfolds when members of the Sealed knot recreate two forces, one of the King Charles I and one of Parliament under the command…
On 23 April 375 years ago, the governor of Hull, Sir John Hotham, refused to allow King Charles to enter the city and access the weapons stored within its walls. This small act of defiance heralded ten years of brutal civil war between the supports of the King and those of the English Parliament. On…
On 23 April 375 years ago, the governor of Hull, Sir John Hotham, refused to allow King Charles to enter the city and access the weapons stored within its walls. This small act of defiance heralded ten years of brutal civil war between the supports of the King and those of the English Parliament. The…
We take part in events across the country, from small historical encampments to huge battles with musket, pike, cannon and cavalry – come along to meet the soldiers and civilians, and experience life during the tumultuous 17th Century! We’ve got a really exciting 2026 lined up, with events across England and Wales – and with…
Battling the elements AND the Royalists – Sherborne Castle was an incredible Bank Holiday weekend! August Bank Holiday musters are always very special occasions for the Sealed Knot and four our regiment – since the entire society turns out they’re often the last event of the year where we’ll see all our friends from other regiments, and are…
Live in or are visiting the south west this Bank Holiday Weekend? Well, today and tomorrow the entire Sealed Knot is laying siege to Sherborne Castle in Dorset! We’re there right now, recreating the civil war history of the castle and taking visitors back to the 17th Century when the Digbys and the old castle stood for…
This Bank Holiday weekend, step back in time and watch a huge battle at Sherborne Castle in Dorset This Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 23rd August to Bank Holiday Monday 25th August, we’ll be at Sherborne Castle in Dorset – a spectacular location for the biggest English Civil War re-enactment you’ll see anywhere in the country this summer. This two-day event will…