As far as I know the first reenactment group in the UK was the Sealed
Knot, which started with an event staged in 1968 to publicise a book on
the Battle of Edgehill by Brig. Peter Young. I first heard the term
"living history" when the SK started demonstrating crafts etc. in a period
encampment in addition to the battle displays. I think this was in the
early 80s.
The Living History Center, a function of the original Ren. Faire here in
California, had been going for a number of years by the early 80s. In 1980
I worked one of their Ren. Faires to get the money to move from Southern CA
to Northern CA.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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