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Welcome to the History Re-
This is where you can find out what we do, where and when we do it, browse through our photos, ask us any questions and even ask about joining in.
We are a small nationally based interpretation group, covering the Tudor and Stuart periods, specialising in domestic life. What we do best, is to take an historic house and a date favoured by the client; then we create an interpretaion of the family, staff and community that might have lived there, portraying a "day in the life of", in First Person.
You can browse through the events and photos of us in action from the Events menu, either by the date it was held, the venue or the period re-
As well as First Person interpretation we can also provide "The Scene." This is where we provide a small period scene, dress it and you, according to your wishes to represent who you are or want to be, and then capturing it with a camera. This can be your own or ours. If you have already taken part, we may already have a photo of you. Select Past Scenes
There are now three events this year, plus an evening special FOR ADULTS ONLY, early evening after the 22 October event. Come and ask all those questions you didn't like to with the children around, about s.e.x. and other things.
This year, in trying to give you a local feel, we recreated a room in the New White Horse Inn. A coaching Inn on the route from London up to Market Harborough.
Samual and Elizabeth Pepys, along with residents of the dockyard took life back to May 1661. As well as meeting the Pepys', visitors were able to see the cookhouse in action, join in the gun crew training and help the navigator.
BBC Radio Solent
On Sunday 8th May, Peter Barnett was a guest on Nick Girdler's 9am programme, talking about the Workshop.
25th Anniversary
2010 was the Workshop's 25th Anniversary. We can look back over the years and see how much it has developed. The group and its members have gained a lot of knowledge in many perspectives: historical, presentation, equipment and clothing. We've been so busy, we eventually celebrated in Feb 2011!
A simple affair centred around a two remove feast that we cooked on site that day, and looked back over the past years, members, and venues come and gone, and how we've developed as a group and improved some much in how we do it.
The full menu will be available shortly as downloadable reciepes in the download section of the website.
Our Winter 2010 newsletter is now available to download as a pdf. (251KB) With some stories about our 2010 events at Woburn and Exeter, as well as our two outings for Mr Pepys. Not forgetting a couple receipes served previously at St.Nicholas' priory.