| We
offer a series of presentations for museums and historic
festivals. We will portray people from the past using
medieval, tudor or jacobean artifacts and costume. We
use "Living
History" as an interpretive technique to bring
alive some aspect of your site.
We can offer
various services:
1). Our Standard
Displays which are deeply researched and come with an
immense number of artifacts which can be handled by
the audience. These do not relate directly to your museum,
historic site or your collection but can be tailored
to do so.
2). Some of
our standard displays can take the form of workshops
for which you can charge even if the entry to your site
is free. We calculate the number of people we can handle
with each workshop and you issue timed tickets at your
entry point.
3). An Anniversary,
We can supply a "character" who will recall
an event in history, e.g.
- An old soldier recalling a successful campaign.
- One of the Gunpowder plotters.
- The baker from Pudding Lane who set fire to London
in 1666
- A seaman recalling Raleigh's Roanoke Plantation
in 1584
We are very happy to accept a brief
for an event that you wish to commemorate. This may
incur extra costs over our normal fees for clothing
and artifacts.
4). Interpretation
of your heritage site or objects in your collection.
We already
have two of these that have been developed from museum
collection interpretation:
- The Barber Surgeon from the Mary Rose for the Mary
Rose Museum Trust and
- An itinerant Bookbinder who inhabits the library
at Traquair House
The museum
and historic festival displays are continuous except
for comfort breaks and may include eating an appropriately
themed meal.
STANDARD
DISPLAYS
TALKS
- T1 The Great Fire of London and those who saw it
- T2 Why did Henry VIII
marry six times?
- T3 Florence Nightingale and her contribution to
medicine
- T4 Tudor Clothing
- T5 A visit to Kentwell Hall
- T8 Tudor food.
- T9 Tudor frolics.
- T10 How toys differed now and then.
- T11 An old soldier recalls his campaigns.
- T12 The Mary Rose, her sinking and recovery
We also have
a series of workshops that can be added to any programme.
WORKSHOPS
We bring
our own tent if outdoors We will sleep in it overnight
in warmer weather. We are happy to come for one day
or more. Multiple days and personnel are at a discount.
If we are working from our own tent we need access the
night before the display or three hours before the start
of proceedings on the day itself. It also takes three
hours to pack away. |
