This year is the 760th anniversary of the Battle of Evesham so the normal Battle Festival will be extended to provide a range of activities over 3 days (1-3 August) starting with:
Days 2 and 3 will cover our award winning Medieval Festival and Battle Re-enactments. In addition, there will our first War Game Festival in Evesham: “Baron’s War 2025”
The founding story of the Abbey of St Mary and St Ecgwine (Evesham Abbey) centres on a personal appearance by the Virgin Mary. The Abbey's continuing prosperity had much to do with the popularity of the cult of the Virgin...
King Henry V and Agincourt - was Agincourt England's finest 3 hours? Complete with armour, maille and weapons of the period! "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ..." Come to hear about the greatest battle of England's most famous warrior King! A...
This is the Simon de Montfort Society's annual popular Day School which features lectures by Rob Jones, David Carpenter, Sandy Higgins, with the memorial lecture by Peter Coss. The House of the Twin Tailed Lion will be presenting too (below). The...
Local author and historian, Sandy Wainwright will explore the story of the knightly de Langley family at the start of the fourteenth century, said to be the origin story to the Babes in the Woods pantomime. Roger de Langley was...
The Battle of Shrewsbury was waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King Henry IV and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle, the first in which English archers fought each other on...
This year is the 760th anniversary of the Battle of Evesham so the normal Battle Festival will be extended to provide a range of activities over 3 days (1 - 3 August) starting with: Day 1/Friday when jousting and tournaments will...
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