Newent Celebrates Dates: 13-14 September Location: High Street, Newent GL18 1AN From onion eating to parading pooches, Newent Celebrates is an event like no other! The Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote is proud to be a part of this revitalised traditional festival! Bringing thousands to this quiet corner of Gloucestershire, the town’s Onion Fayre…
With our last event in the re-enactment calendar done for 2024, members of the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote have been reflecting on their favourite events and memories from the season – and we want to share them with you! Martin has been part of the regiment with his extended family for many years,…
From barber-surgeons to ballad sellers, from spies to gamblers – this half term meet the past at Nunnington Hall as the English Civil War comes to life! On the 2nd and 3rd November, troops of The Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote will be garrisoning the stunning National Trust property in North Yorkshire. Occupied by…
When: 9am-3pm, Saturday 25 January 2024 Where: Nantwich, Cheshire (march to town square, followed by battle on Mill Island) We are delighted to be returning to the town of Nantwich with our comrades in the Sealed Knot for another march and battle in this historica town. Click here to go to the event website >> For…
It’s the biggest event of the year and 2024’s August Bank Holiday muster went off with a real bang! The regiment flocked to north Oxfordshire for a weekend of relaxing, partying, and fighting – despite some pretty extreme weather! The elements toyed with us all weekend, going from absolutely torrential downpours to tentpole-bending wind! It…
You always know it’s a great event when the watchword afterwards is “what happens at Cheriton…..stays at Cheriton”! Taking place near Winchester and organised by Sergeant Major General Henry Tillier’s Regiment of Foote of the Sealed Knot, this rather special event allowed our musketeers to do something they normally don’t get to do – firing…
What an amazing weekend – we had an absolute scorcher at Culcheth in Cheshire! With great weather, fantastic friends, and a stunning location, we enjoyed a brilliant weekend of bringing the past to life. Things got off to a blinding start, with everyone mucking in to get our encampment set up in record time, under…
The odd torrential downpour notwithstanding, our Late Bank Holiday weekend was a brilliant mix of campaigning on the field and celebrating off it! We were reenacting the pivotal Battle of Marston Moor from 1644 in the grounds of Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire. As is usual for a bank holiday event the Saturday was a…
We were thrilled to be invited to a one-day multi-period event in Huddersfield as part of the annual Golcar Lily Day celebrations. This was a chance for us to be a little more relaxed than usual, enjoy some good historical cooking and games, as well as wrangling some younger members of the public for a…
When: Sunday 26 May – Monday 27 May 2024 Where: Scampston Hall, Malton, YO17 8NG 380 years on, we join the whole Sealed Knot to mark the dramatic events of the Battle of Marston Moor, with an interactive family day out. Explore how the Royalist cause in the North was lost in the largest battle of the brutal…