reenactment – Time Traveller’s Guide to Re-enactment

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Making linen thread buttons in a traffic jam in the Lake District

Because we’d come home, I was really excited to go down to our re-enactment at NTS Preston Mill. Our re-enactment group were really excited to lend a hand on the mainland to stage photoshoots, with our young reenactor who portrays the Prince happy to dress as Betty Burke to stage photoshoots, with other reenactors happyContinue reading “Over the Sea to Skye – Part 3”

Coming out the other side

Lock down restrictions came and went, and came and went. Testing and the hope of vaccination bringing the hope of ‘normality’ ever closer. I finally bit the metaphorical sewing bullet and started to make the boyfriend kit. First a linen shirt. Then my very first soldier’s uniform, for an officer of the 47th. It wasContinue reading “Coming out the other side”

No Man’s Land Multi-Period – Bodrhyddan Hall (12th-13th April 2025)

First multiperiod event and first trip to Wales! As the daughter of a Jones, I have to bow my head in shame that I’ve reached the age of 21 (for many years now) without ever visiting Wales. My horse’s dad was North Wales dressage champion in his time too, so it seemed like too goodContinue reading “No Man’s Land Multi-Period – Bodrhyddan Hall (12th-13th April 2025)”

The Battle of Killiecrankie Re-enactment

For my next reenactment, I didn’t travel back to 1745, but went even further back, to 1689 in Perthshire for the Battle of Killiecrankie. After only three reenactment events, I’d been thoroughly bitten by the bug, and would become a multi-period re-enactor and doing my first event with many different groups coming from all overContinue reading “The Battle of Killiecrankie Re-enactment”

How to be a girl (in the 18th century): Broken toe and shoe shopping

At the beginning of March 2018, with just over a month to go before my first reenactment, feeling a tiny bit smug that all my 18th century clothes were ready to go, apart from a cap and set of period shoes, I managed to ‘slightly’ break my pinkie toe. Totally my fault. I was standingContinue reading “How to be a girl (in the 18th century): Broken toe and shoe shopping”

Developing a character for reenactment: how to be a girl (in the 18th century)

So, I may have mentioned, I fell a tiny bit in love with the 18th century dresses I’d seen on my travels from museums, portraits and illustrations, to many different examples I’d seen on tv and film. So, there were several factors at play when I was trying to decide who my character would beContinue reading “Developing a character for reenactment: how to be a girl (in the 18th century)”