Re-enactment groups
Roman Comedy
Description: Roman Comedy provide something other groups don’t: a roman themed stand-up comedian. We cater for large festivals and smaller after dinner affairs in which the comedian can speak from 10 minutes up to an hour on the lighter side of the Roman occupation of Britain. Topics covered are the Celts, bathhouses and why the Romans [...]
Historical Promotions
We are a multi-disciplinary company that designs, plans, co-ordinates and delivers cultural heritage events and interpretation for virtually every historical period with a complete Historical Event Service. Our range of historical periods and events covers live interpretation, re-enactments, multi-period spectaculars, Medieval festivals, battles and sieges, historical markets and fayres, maritime events and air shows, craft [...]
Rent a Peasant
Living History Interpreters of everyday agricultural and domestic life from Roman to Tudor times. Talks and demonstrations given using a wide range of reproduction artefacts and, where venue permits, live farm animals.
Chepstowe Garrison, The
The Chepstowe Garrison is an independent multi-period Living History Group based in Chepstow Castle, South Wales. The group meets monthly at the castle and also has regular discussion & social evenings. We have various interactive living history displays covering aspects of life in the Castle through the ages (e.g. crafts, cookery, medicine, archery, musketry, cannon [...]
Britannia Society
Research & award winning re-enactments from 350 AD-650 AD for film & television, including Gladiator & Time Team. Also the Britannia Gladiator group perform public displays for museums in amphitheatres (Cadw) and for television.
Ludus Gladiatorius
Ludus Gladiatorius is a group based that seeks to recreate something of the professional gladiatorial games and their history from 100-200AD. We are based in Fareham, Hampshire UK, and meet regularly to train each Thursday to practice our fighting and carry out research.
ERA
One of the UKs leading early medieval re-enactment societies, ERA depicts aspects of life in post-Roman Britain of the 5th and 6th centuries. We can display a wide range of craft skills (including weaving, spinning, dyeing, woodworking, forge-work, casting etc) as well as military skills. (ERA UK NO LONGER EXISTS)
Medieval Combat Society
King Edward III (1327-1377) and his son Edward of Woodstock, more popularly known as The Black Prince, held many Chivalric foot tournaments of the Nobility and Knights, which the MCS recreates, complete with all its pomp and pageantry. It was a time when England lay claim to the throne of France, with victories at Crecy, [...]
