Catching up around the campfire, sampling the delights of cider country, sleeping under the stars, and – of course – fantastic battles … what a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend in the sun and mud of Much Marcle with our comrades in the Sealed Knot! The May Bank Holiday kicked our reenactment season off with a…
Ballads, blood-letting, and barging into proceedings – where better to spread our love of history than at HistFest 2024 at the British Library? A detachment of The Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote stationed themselves at this fantastic event 13-14 April, kicking things off by ‘interrupting’ the first panel of the event – ‘How To…
Have you ever visited a historic house or castle and wondered what it must have been like to live there? Well last weekend we lived it, taking over the stunning Plas Mawr in Conwy, North Wales; a wonderously intact Elizabethan town built by Robert Wynn, third son of a local landowner, between 1576 and 1585.…
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…
Meet a face of Manchester’s: David We spend our summers battling as a team and spending time as a family – but who are the people who make up the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote? We’re delighted to introduce you to a face of our regiment using some of their favourite photos, as they explain…
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…
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…
After two years away, the Battle of Nantwich returned to the Cheshire town with a bang – and a big win for the Earl of Manchester’s! We’re back home now after a fantastic time at the 50th anniversary Holly Holy Day and Battle of Nantwich reenactment in Cheshire. With temperatures dipping well below freezing overnight,…