If you want maximum attendance at your event, nothing can beat the excitement, fury and gunfire of an English Civil War battle. Better still, your visitors will be able to visit the Living History during the day and talk to the soldiers, try on the armour, hold a musket and find out about the effects of the wars on ordinary people in 17th century England.

Everybody who sees it will be talking about it for days afterwards. If you think you can work together with the English Civil War Society on the basis of this document we'd like to hear from you.

We run many different sizes of event from smallest "Living History & Drill" with a few dozen re-enactors, small events with a skirmish style battle, to our large events called major musters where you can find cavalry and artillery in quantity.

2025 Events

12 - 13 April - Working Weekend - Dorset

27 April - Living History & Drill - West Horsley Place, Surrey

28 - 29 June - Small Event - Titchfield Abby, Hampshire

27 - 28 July - Large Event - St. Ives, Huntingdonshire

24 - 25 August - Large Event - Kent

06 - 07 September - Small Event - Corfe Castle, Dorset

20 - 21 September - Living History & Drill - Farnham Castle, Surrey

2024 Events

April - Working Weekend - Dorset

May - Large Event - Wimborne Dorset

June - Foreign Event - Bourtange, Netherlands

August - Large Event - Wressle Castle, Yorkshire

September - Living History & Drill - Corfe Castle, Dorset

2020 - 2023 Events

September 2023- Foreign Event - Stevensweert, Netherlands

August 2023 - Large Event - Colchester 375th Anniversary

July 2023- Large Event - Hylton Castle, Sunderland

August 2022 - Small Event - Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire

July 2022 - Large Event - Chippenham, Wiltshire

June 2022 - Living History & Drill - Chalke Valley, Wiltshire

June 2022 - Foreign Event - Bourtange, Netherlands

May 2022 - Large Event - Alton, Hampshire

July 2021 - Living History & Drill - Farnham Castle, Surrey

June 2021 - Living History & Drill - Chalke Valley, Wiltshire

March 2020 - Living History - Wreck of the "London" - Southend, London

Older Events

2019

Cheriton March, Newark, Bourtange, Marlborough, Brampton Bryan, Gloucester and Farnham Castle

2018

Tonbridge Castle, Heiligerlee, Newbury, Sunderland, Gloucester, Nieuwpoort and Farnham Castle

2017

Valence House, Llantrisant, Beckington, Brampton Bryan, Pitchford Hall, Farnham Castle

2016

Luss, St Fagan’s Museum, Bradford-on-Avon, Newport Pagnell, Dunbar

2015

Newark, Valence House, Wallingford, Alton, Brampton Byan, Oakwell Hall

2014

Melbury Abbas, Malmsbury, Marlborough, Schipluiden near Delft, Gloucester, Forty Hall

2013

Gloucester, Chesterfield, Chippenham, Detling, Cardiff Castle, Upnor Castle, Brampton Bryan

2012

Gloucester, Brimscombe, Mapledurham House, Detling

2011

Scaplans Court, Chippenham, Melbury Abbas, Broadlands, Detling, Almanza

2000 - 2010 Events

2010

St. Ives Huntingdonshire, Glemham Hall, Melcombe Bingham, Zaragosa 1710, Poole, Lulworth Castle, Melbury Abbas, Brampton Bryan

2009

Kelmarsh, Detling, Almanza, Carrickfergus, Malplaquet 1709, Melbury Abbas

2008

Kelmarsh, West Acre, Sully sur Loire, Oudenaarde, 1708, Gloucester Docks

2007

Liverpool, Kelmarsh, Detling, Almanza 1707, Mont Louis

2006

Newport Shrophire, Kelmarsh, Ramillies 1706, St Hermine en Vendee, Lacock Abbey, Boyne

2005

Staveley, West Acre, Kelmarsh, Powderham Castle, Berkeley Castle, Ramillies, Whitehaven, Waterloo 1705

2004

Berwick on Tweed, Audley End, Waltham Abbey, Newburn, Blindheim 1704 (Battle of Blenheim)

2003

Berwick on Tweed, Colchester, Bolingbroke Castle, Lytchett Minster

2002

Shepton Mallet, Hounslow, Fort Brockhurst, Waltham Abbey, Purbeck Rally, Ligerville

2001

Battle Abbey

2000

Alton, Kirby Hall, Wallingford, Yeovil