Members of Buckingham’s Retinue recently took part in the Barnet Mediaeval Festival, commemorating the battle of Barnet in 1471.

Barnet is a relatively new event but well organized, with two battles per day, a good mix of traders and merchants, and other shows, talks and activities throughout the day.

For our part we set up a small encampment, with Mark providing his mediaeval medicine and surgery talk throughout the day, then we were off to fight for the house of York at the battles of St Albans and Barnet!

Our camp

Preparing for battle

The calm before the battle

Shiny things in the market!

Medieval board games

Marks Medieval Medicine

Our neigbours were a bit flat...

More goodies in the market

Advancing on the enemy!

 Saturday sunset

Group members will next be attending the Tewkesbury Mediaeval Festival, 8th-9th July. See the Tewkesbury Mediaeval Festival for more information:Tewkesbury Medieval Festival