At 7:20 AM -0700 9/5/05, Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote:
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.
The Living History Centre (note spelling) was incorporated as a
non-profit corporation in California in May 1968. I have so far found
no earlier usage of the term "living history", though the Parks
Service was using the term within a few years in a pamphlet
discussing costumed interpretation.
(The first Patterson renaissance fair was in May 1963 in southern
California, the first SCA party in May 1966, the first Patterson
renaissance fair in northern California in 1967 -- it had SCA
participation.)
Sharon
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Resources for Scottish history, names, clothing, language & more:
Medieval Scotland - http://MedievalScotland.org/
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