The latest National Trust for Scotland magazine has a piece of typical modern journalism - light on facts or context, heavy on personal experience and descriptions. The author of it is a journalist who got to spend a day with Clanranald training, with the point being that they are in charge of the battle for next years Bannockburn re-enactment ( Read more... )

This guy ( Read more... )

The meaning of the word medieval-ish should be quite obvious, especially if you read Terry PRatchett books ( Read more... )

The 'highly professional' Clanranald will be involved in running the accurate re-creation of the battle of Bannockburn ( Read more... )

that there is very little inherent conflict between authenticity and entertainment of the public at re-enactment and similar events, especially with regards to ( Read more... )

In the previous post I discussed something I felt Howard Giles wasn't quite right about. He also wrote a list of things that are relevant, basically about how to meet client expectations and give everyone a good time. His exemplar is the 1940's ( Read more... )

I came across this summary of a talk that Howard Giles did to Nares last year ( Read more... )

Next year it will be at Chatelherault, the property owned by the Dukes of HAmilton I think it was ( Read more... )

My group has had a little problem over the last year - two members have gotten a real job in England, another emigrated with his girlfriend, a couple of possible Polish fill-ins have gone back to Poland, and one of our older members hasn't been seen for a couple of years because of pressure of work and other things ( Read more... )