What: Golcar Lily Day Where: Golcar Scout and Community Centre, Manor Rd, Golcar, Huddersfield HD7 4QE When: 10am-4pm, 11 May We are delighted to be a part of this annual celebration of life in Golcar. This annual village festival supposedly takes its name from the great Methodist preacher John Wesley, who described the ladies of…
Saturday 27 July – Sunday 28 July 2024 Scrubs Farm, Alresford, Hampshire, SO24 0HR Steep yourself in history with a day out for the whole family this summer. Our Cheriton multi-period event will see re-enactors from the Sealed Knot, the Medieval Knights Society, the Napoleonic Society and the American Civil War Society. A chance to…
Sunday 24 August – Bank Holiday Monday 25 August 2024 Put the date in your diary as this August Bank Holiday will see us mark the 380th anniversary of the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. The Sealed Knot will be returning to the Banbury countryside for our summer bank holiday spectacular. An event that sees hundreds of…
When: Saturday 24 February – Sunday 25 February 2024 Where: Huntingdon Town Hall, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire In January 1649 – 375 years ago this year – a King was put on trial in London, accused of treason against his own people, an event which was radical for its time and has been controversial ever since. The…
We’re still recovering from one of our all-time great weekends at Nantwich – cold, muddy and hard work but packed with good friends and good fun! Every January, the Sealed Knot gathers in Nantwich, the market town in Cheshire that was besieged by Royalist forces in 1644, to commemorate and reenact the lifting of the…
Our reenactment season for 2023 has now come to a close – and what a year it’s been! We’ve been up and down the country to bring the past to life at some amazing locations, from stately homes to housing estates. We thought we would ask our members what event was their highlight of their…
What a way to draw our reenactment season to a close – with a blaze of glory at a spectacular muster in the grounds of a ruined abbey once besieged by Oliver Cromwell! Shut down during the Reformation, Crowland Abbey sits on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens north of Peterborough and was a stunning…
What a weekend! it was the August Bank Holiday, so that can mean only one thing – the entire Sealed Knot gathering to reenactment and socialise together! We’ve just returned from an amazing time at Margam Country Park near Port Talbot in south Wales, where we took part in huge battles, enjoyed fantastic parties, and…
Where: Crowland Abbey, Crowland, Peterborough, PE6 0EN When: 11.15am-8pm on Saturday 16 September & 12.15pm-4.30pm Sunday 17 September We are delighted to be supporting our friends in the London Brigade of the Army of Parliament at Crowland Abbey for their unique and spectacular English Civil War re-enactment & Living History weekend! With a torch-lit parade…
It was a wet weekend in Bidford-on-Avon – but not because of the weather! We’re now all back home after an absolutely brilliant reenactment event in the heart of Warwickshire – from trying to blow up a bridge to revealing life during the English Civil War, it was a wonderfully fun couple of days at…