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Posted: Wed 11 May , 2005 3:56 pm
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TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
The battles are cool
The main event this year was cool in general, weather, rain, nights, and all.
The battles were silly and a bit embarrassing - one cannot recreate a matter of tens of thousands with two handfuls of people.
But the camp impression was good, meeting the pards was good, marching to a drumbeat was good.
Now, my gear is greased and polished and back in the boxes for the rest of the year and the better half of the next.


Leoba quoted an interesting article which points out a distinguisihing point between two kinds of reenactments: the "show" (display of thousands of fat clerks bellowing hurrah or i-yi-yi-yi) and the "living history" (a single guy in a uniform telling people the whats and whys). And then there is the "experience" (and that is for the participant alone). "Show" has become increasingly unimportant for the son of Mummpizz' mother.

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I've been to reenactments of Gettysburg (TONS OF PEOPLE) in the hot, hot summer. As I've learned, the kids stop enjoying it because all you do is sit and watch and I know as a kid, I'd have rathered gotten to play.

The living history part has always been a bit more interesting because you could ask questions and get answers. It was also more hands on than watching a lot of people fake a battle.

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My sister just sent me through some photos she took at Rufford Abbey back in May.

Sadly, there is an indication many of our number ought to be featured on the Big Re-enactors webpage. :LMAO:


Yup - that's me, hiding under my wimple, in the centre and looking most industrious!

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That'll be Din doing whatever it is that Cistercian monks probably oughtn't to be doing to knights.

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Din's lurking to the left front of this group shot too. Only a couple of these are our group (obviously - we don't do highwaymen - though some of the girlies probably wouldn't mind =:) )

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... one of these days....... one of these years........... sighhhhhhhh

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I was at one of these in Bunratty today with my son Conor. Slideshow below!

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It looks like you had a great day out Alatar. :D If it was anywhere near as hot as it waa for us at Caldicott Castle in South Wales I don't envy those guys running round in armour; I overheated just sitting watching Din get thumped in the jaw with a mace!

I hope you don't mind, but I posted a link to your photos over on a Living History forum I frequent. Maybe someone knows the group involved, who might like a look at themselves.

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They're from Finglas in Dublin, if thats a help. The Falconers were English though, and the Archers fron Northern Ireland so although the core group are the Living History Finglas branch, there were many others who came to fill out the ranks.


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Looks great Alatar!! alot like a big living history day we had at Archeon a while back. I missed it this year, shame.

Fab pics :D

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Some of the best of the pictures taken by my Mum on the Sunday at Caldicott. This is only 10 picked at something like random out of 120; the full selection is available on my photobucket account.


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Als u het leven te ernstig neemt, mist u de betekenis.
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Great pictures Leoba! I especially like the one of the straw hat :D

Psssst Lidless check the date 2005 :P not so very recent

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Just popping the link to the Battle of Hastings thread in here, because there are some fabulous pictures links in there. :D

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Faramond just looked at your sig and wondered if everybody ever gets injured ( well, his exact words was "killed" :P ) in these reenactments, Leoba :D He thinks the arrows look dangerous :P

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Replying a year late: yes there are sometimes injuries, but efforts are made to ensure they are minimal. At the big Hastings last year, the worst injury was to a groom who was kicked by a horse in the paddock. Arrows have blunt rubber heads on, so tend to cause nothing more than bruising. Thankfully for the bods at Hastings, our archery captain brought along a metal detector, to root out any idiots who had slipped a rubber blunt on top of a sharp field pile (and yes, there were some!).


I just thought I'd share a photo from this weekend, at Mannington Hall in Norfolk, where a handful of us Norman types took part in an small but perfectly formed history fair.

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Nice pic Leoba I love the costumes :)

Silly question time. Do you all role-play at these events?

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Well, I don't stand there and say "my name's xxxx, wife of xxxx the whatever". I don't pretend to be anything other than a 21st century person in the guise of a 12th/13th century one, but I suppose you could call it role-playing when one does daft things such as going 5 days across Norfolk on pilgrimage or dressing up as a Norman archer to fight the Battle of Hastings. And I do have a fair idea of who my 'character' is (mistress/wife to the priest, usually) and what she's doing there (a castle garrison).

However, there are other re-enactment groups (those who do Tudors at Kentwell Hall for example) who take on a specific character, get totally into the 1st person thing and use a sort of pig-Shakesperean English to talk to one another and the public.

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Sounds like fun :) I've always wanted to dress up in costume but the closest thing I've done is live action role-playing (LARP) and that felt kind of weird.

Was your costume terribly warm? I only ask because it's almost November and stupid California is warm and I couldn't image wearing the layers of your costume in this weather.

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TheMary wrote:
Was your costume terribly warm?
Yes, thank goodness! So warm and cosy I kept it on whilst I slept as well (it was about 2 degrees C overnight; max about 11 degrees C during the day). I'm even starting to think about getting my winter coat out for travelling to work (I was de-icing the car windscreen at 6:30am all last week). Wool is pretty forgiving of different temperatures though and I wore the same dress last month when we were hiking in temperatures around the low 20s (sorry I can't convert to Fahrenheit!). I wear linen (varying weights) when (if) it gets properly hot.

Dressing up is fun and I would love to have a go at LARP.

Now if only I can work out how to get chilli sauce off my surcote, without having to wash the whole thing!

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