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Chalke Valley History Festival 2023

On the 1st and 2nd July Buckinghams Retinue made the long journey to the Chalke Valley History Festival to take part in one of the largest celebrations of history in the UK.

ChalkeValley Camp

 

The festival is held every year in the beautiful Chalke Valley on the edge of Salisbury and the Cranborne Chase AOONB and hosts numerous historians, writers and craftspeople  throughout the week, giving talks and demonstrations on a huge range of historical subjects. 

 

 

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Gilded pork being cooked on the spit and then sliced

 

Chalke Valley Joust

Watching the jousting

 

Chalke Valley Marchpane

Marchpane subtleties being made

 

Chalke Valley Mark

Mark explaining the role of the barber surgeon

 

Chalke Valley Oven

Vic and Darren showing the use of the portable bread oven

 

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Rachel discussing food and social status

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Salted beef, before and after cooking. 

 

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Sewing and armour, a winning combination

 

Buckinghams Retinue provided a range of living history displays in our camp, including board games, medicine and arms and armour but the big focus was on historical cooking. Rachel went above and beyond to provide a huge range of historical foods, with a particular focus on what an army on the march would have carried and eaten, to fit in with the wider theme of this section of the festival (the end of the Hundred Years War).

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Just a part of the fantastic food and cooking display

 

Group members will be attending the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival on the 8th-9th July but our next full event will be at Skipton Castle, North Yorkshire 15th-16th July for the 15th Century Castle Life event. Please see the Skipton Castle Website for details. 

New Events for the Calendar!

Stop the (hand powered printing) presses! Two more events have been added to our 2023 calendar!

In addition to our other shows and events, we will now be attending the Chalke Valley History Festival and returning to Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings!

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Buckinghams Retinue will be providing medieval living history with a focus on food, ettiquette and dance as part of the wider Chalke Valley History Festival on 1st and 2nd July, in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire.

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We have also been invited back to Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromsgrove on the 27th and 28th August, where we will be proving our full range of medieval displays in our living history camp. 

Chalke Valley History Festival 2024

Buckingham's Retinue once again ventured to the depths of Wiltshire to attend the spectacular Chalke History Festival. In addition to authors, historians and presenters, the festival hosts some of the best living history groups and performers in the country, with displays from the Iron Age to the Cold War. 

 

This gave us an excellent opportunity to work together with other medievalists, to provide much larger archery and firepower displays and an excellent turn out for our medieval music and dance demonstration, both of which proved popular with the public.

 

These were in addition to our regular medieval arms and armour, medicine and cooking talks and displays. 



Some group members will be attending the Tewksbury Mediaeval Festival on 13th-14th July. Our next full event will be Skipton Castle, 27th-28th July.

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