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Welcome to Buckingham's Retinue Reenactment Site |
 Welcome to Buckingham's Retinue, one of the more authentic re-enactment groups for the period 1450-1500. Our society is a non profit orgainsation that exists to reconstruct and re-enact late medieval life, recreating the period known as 'The Wars of the Roses'.
If you are interested in taking up re-enactment as a hobby, check out our recruitment section to see the kinds of things we do and how you can take part. If you want to see us in action, here is Buckingham's Retinues events list for 2008.
If you own or manage a historical site and want to know how Buckingham's Retinue could bring it to life, please read our employers' section or you could contact us via email.
We also have a wide variety of information about medieval life, from histories of the wars of the roses, guides on clothing, songs, recipes, weaponry information, as well as a history of the Stafford Family, who were the first Dukes of Buckingham.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 April 2008 )
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Saint George's day at Wrest Park 2008 |
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Re-enacting Saint George's day at Wrest Park for me will always bring back memories of looking after a 5 month old Benjamin Services at his first event, trying to ensure his fair skin did not burn too badly in the heat. Unfortunately this was 4 years later, the same April weekend was bitterly cold and damp, I suppose that was good news for some of the traders there though, as there seemed to be a never ending line of re-enactors returning from the market carrying bundles of army surplus blankets, or animal skins to wrap up warm in.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 May 2008 )
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Easter at Warwick Castle (or Who Ordered the Weather?) |
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So where to start writing about 4 days of fun, interesting weather, hordes of public and actually being on the winning side?
I suppose the obvious place is the weather - after all we are British and it was quite a dominating feature of the weekend!
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Last Updated ( Monday, 31 March 2008 )
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2007 was been an interesting season with a new group captain for the first time in 10 years, more new members than I can remember and our first ever combined Tudor and Richardian event.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 04 February 2008 )
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