IF YOU have ever longed to travel back in time and experience history at first hand then head to the Living History Festival at the Weald and Downland Living Museum this weekend.
Visitors can embark upon an immersive journey through over 1,000 years of English history, all brought to life by more than 200 of the UK’s leading costumed reenactors at the museum’s 40-acre site in Singleton near Chichester.
Over the weekend, life from Saxon times through to the 20th Century will be experienced. Visitors can not only spectate at a medieval jousting tournament, but also see preparations for the event.
This year’s show incorporates centenary celebrations of the British Percheron Horse Society and 30 of their magnificent horses will be at the event, some of which will join the arena re-enactments. The society will also display modern uses of the percheron, including showing, competition driving, riding, plus farm and forestry work.
There is a packed arena timetable and demonstrations will have the atmospheric backdrop of the museum’s site, bringing its collection of rescued rural buildings to life.
This is an event for all the family, with encampments to explore, food and drink to taste, demonstrations of horsemanship and military drills to watch, plus trades, crafts and historical demonstrations.