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,…
When: 12pm-3pm, Saturday 21 January 2023 Where: Nantwich, Cheshire (march to town square, followed by battle on Mill Island) After two years of cancelled events due to the pandemic, we are delighted to be returning to the town of Nantwich with our comrades in the Sealed Knot – just in time for the event’s 50th anniversary!…
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…
When: 25-26 September 2021 Where: The Big Meadow, Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire Roundheads and Cavaliers return to Bidford-on-Avon, 377 years after the town first lost its famous bridge! The Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote, part of the The Sealed Knot reenactment society, proudly invites you to step back to the 1640s for a special weekend of…
England has only ever put a monarch on trial once – but at Huntingdon Town Hall last month, some of our members helped put King Charles the First on trial FOUR times! Organised by the Cromwell Museum and our friends in Colonel John Pickering’s Regiment of Foote, the restaging of the Trial of Charles I…
When: 29 February 2020 Where: Huntingdon Town Hall, 53 High Street, Huntingdon, PE29 3AQ Step back to 1649 when England put its own king on trial for his life! Organised by The Cromwell Museum and Colonel John Pickering’s Regiment of Foote of the Sealed Knot, dramatised performances recreating the tumultuous events of the trial of…
When: From 1.30pm, 1 March 2020 Where: Bridge Place, Godmanchester to High Street, Huntingdon To celebrate the grand reopening of the Cromwell Museum, Colonel John Pickering’s Regiment of Foote of the Sealed Knot society will stage a unique event that will bring this historic town’s past to life. Members of the Sealed Knot dressed in…