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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 2010.
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 ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 )
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Blore heath 1459-2009 - A Soldier's Perspective
by Jock
As we all arrived on Friday afternoon, we could all tell it was going to be a good event, one of our largest. We found our camp was at the furthest edge of the field, but that was fine by us as it meant we didn't have far to march for drill or the battle.
Friday evening was for many of us a wind down from the week, so many of us engaged in a little drop too many, however Saturday morning's skirmish had us all back in the correct frame of mind.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 September 2009 )
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Greenwich 13th-14th June 2009 |
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 June is often a difficult month to organise events for, so the Retinue was really pleased to get and invite to the prestigious event at Greenwich’s Old Navel College. The college is right by the Thames, next to the cutty sark, which meant that the towers of canary wharf provided a surreal backdrop for thisTudor event. In addition our camp site was next to the music practice rooms of the college, so the whole weekend has a strange musical accompaniment.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 July 2009 )
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Framlingham 3rd-4th May 2009 |
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 Framlingham 3rd/4th May,
I drove through the twisty Suffolk lanes on the way to Framlingham castle with a sense of trepidation. I was in charge of a Buckingham's Retinue event for the first time in years; and I had a number of challenges to face.
Firstly the event was set in around Mary I's ascension to the throne in 1553, about 70 years later than the time period Buckingham's Retinue normally operate in. This meant very little of our medieval kit would be valid, leaving us very short of period kit and knowledge. I had quickly skimmed through one book on Mary Tudor, but realistically I knew that no one in the retinue would be able to answer any really difficult questions the public posed about the period.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 May 2009 )
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