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.
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
This weekend Buckingham’s Retinue appeared, alongside our friends and colleagues from Livery and Maintenance, at the St George’s Day festivities hosted by English Heritage at Wrest Park, an impressive stately home on the edge of Milton Keynes.
Some of our members will be at the Barnet Mediaeval Festival 10th-11th June. See the festival website for further details Barnet Medieval Festival – Reenactment of the Battle of Barnet 1471
