Now in its fifth year the Living History Festival at Avoncroft Museum takes place from Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April, and has grown to become the museum’s largest annual event and one of the UK’s leading multi-period history festivals.

The three hundred plus reenactors taking part at the event will showcase over a thousand years of history helping visitors travel back in time to experience living history from the Bronze Age to the Cold War.

With plenty of canon, muskets, swords, and spears, there will be both military and domestic history on show, including Roman gladiators battling it out in the arena, Ancient Britons, Vikings, Napoleonic troops and soldiers from the First and Second World Wars.

There are also plenty of depictions of domestic and agricultural life, including cooking, dancing, and traditional crafts and pastimes. A medieval weaver will be giving demonstrations in the historic Town House and there will also be trader stalls selling historically inspired artefacts from jewellery and hats to handmade tools, costumes, and cloth to historic pottery. Historic encampments will be set up across the nineteen acre site.

The museum’s New Guesten Hall will become a hub for food, music, and dancing, featuring a selection of songs from the ages performed by the Stream of Sound choir and dancing from the historical dance group Gloriana. Bromsgrove Society of Model Engineers, will be running their miniature trains throughout the weekend.

Discounted advance tickets are on sale up to Thursday 21 April (with entrance via the fast-track admission gate), and can be purchased from the Museum's website. 

Tickets will be available to purchase on the day, at £21.50 per adult, £7 per child, while Museum Members enjoy a discounted rate (£10 adult £4 child).

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