Ralph d'Aarken

Ralph is an extremely experienced re-enactor and a man of many and varied talents; from playing and making period musical instruments, to reproducing wooden carved scenes to donning armour and fighting for the Yorkist cause.

Areas of interest: music, crafts, military and almost any aspect of medieval life.

Mark Austen

Mark brings a wealth of experience to the group as an exceptional craftsman. He has a portable forge and is able to demonstrate wood and metal work techniques.

He is also a very capable archer.

Areas of interest: woodwork, metal work and assoicated crafts, archery.

Cameron Boyle

Cam has been re-enacting since an early age and is often seen walking his ferrets or helping his father in the "hovel". In another persona, Cam is "Squire to Lord Bonivant".

He also bakes exceedingly good cakes!

Fiona Boyle

Fiona is an experienced re-enactor within the medieval period. She has a lot of experience commentating, scripting and running large scale battles for other groups.

An extremely experienced seamstress, Fi takes an active part in our living history presentations, felting, making reed hats and churning butter..to name but a few activites.

Nick Boyle

Nick is a highly skilled craftsman and is constantly researching medieval wood working methods and tools. He often exhibits his award winning woodworkers "hovel" at events. His demonstrations are a real favourite with the public.

Areas of interest: wood working and associated crafts.

Chris Davies

Amongst other things Chris is a secondary school teacher and qualified archery instructor

As expected, Chris is an excellent archer and underakes many other outdoor pursuits with the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. He is also a talented calligrapher and fletcher. His abilities seem boundless!

Areas of interest: archery, calligraphy and western martial arts.

Ian Flint

Ian works for a national conservation and heritage charity shaping how heritage sites work with their visitors. Coming from a museums background, he has won prestigious awards in living history competitions.

His re-enactment experience covers various periods and is not limited to the UK. As a founder member of a Western Martial Arts school, he works with other martial artists in the group to develop our highly popular combat demonstrations.

Area of Interest: Western and Eastern martial arts, Living History Interpretation, trade and exploration.

Alice Horgan

Alice is unbeatable at a number of medieval games and enjoys demonstrating period games to the public. She also casts pewter badges and trinkets from moulds made at events.

She has been know to wield a polearm to good effect, but rumours of women on the battlefield are hard to substantiate.

Areas of interest: western martial arts, archery, medieval games, Tudor re-enactment.

Annie Horgan

As a primary school HLTA, Annie is very used to preparing demonstrations and presentations across a wide range of subjects.

She is skilled at making period costumes and has a comprehensive set of medieval cures and salves.

Areas of interest: medieval medicine and cooking, sewing, traditional crafts and period dress.

Fred Horgan

Fred loves to fight with light, fast pole weapons. He is also an instructor in Ju Jitsu and is interested in the comparisons and similarities between Eastern and Western martial arts.

Fred also demonstrated stained glass work at events.

Areas of interest: western martial arts, eastern martial arts, arms and armour, Tudor re-enactment, medieval glasswork.

John Horgan

An ex-teacher, John is no stranger to giving presentations. He enjoys researching the characters and battles of the middle ages. As one of our "tinnies" John is often used for target practise by our archers!

Areas of interest: western martial arts, battles and tactics from the Wars of the Roses, historical figures - especially John Howard, John Tiptoft and James Tyrell, heraldry, Tudor re-enactment.

Edward Jackson

Edward is a skilled graphic designer and has provided a good deal of input into our levels of historical presentation and design of our livery and colours. Edward presents and creates period illustrations and paintings using many authentic pigments at events.

He is also a talented actor and is often called on to take primary roles in larger re-enactments.

Areas of interest: western martial arts, living history.

Alex Moore

Alex has been re-enacting since a young age and is a skilled swordsman. He also has experience of re-enactment of other time periods.

Areas of interest: western martial arts, archery.

Harriet Moore

Harriet, like many women iof this period, is a competent archer. Women mayhave used bows to hunt small game while their husbands worked elsewhere. There is also evidence of women archers on muster rolls for the defence of towns.

Harriet can also use a polearm when necessary, but this is well kept secret.

Areas of interest: archery, western martial arts.

Peter Moore

Peter is head of an award winning living history household with another group, where he portrays Sir John Tiptoft, the Earl of Worcester. He has many years re-enactment experience and a gleaming full harness for the archers to target.

Areas of interest: western martial arts, arms and armour of the middle ages, life and achievements of the de la Pole and Tiptoft families, Tudor re-enactment.

Ali Naylor

Ali is a very experienced re-enactor and brings her skills as a musician and dancer to the group. She also re-enacts other periods of history, especially Tudor.

Areas of interest: music, dancing, medieval life, Tudor re-enactment.

Colin Perry

Colin has judged living history competitions and is a skilled archer. He is largely responsible for the quality of our archery displays and training of our archers. He is also competent fletcher.

Areas of interest: archery, medieval life.

Shirley Sharp

As a secondary school teacher and Duke of Edinburgh trainer, Shirley is a first class educator.

Aside from her skills at archery, Shirley is competent in a number of medieval crafts, in particular beadwork.

Areas of interest: archery, medieval crafts, living history.

Tina Steiner

Tina started re-enactment in 1996 in Germany when hardly any good kit was available. Being a hands-on person she sews her own costumes and has made a wide range of things like shoes, pattens, furniture and arrows.
She demonstrates weaving rushes, one of the oldest known materials, into hats, bags, boxes and bowls, participates in the archery demonstration and is rumoured to have an evil twin who fights battles as a man at arms.

Areas of interest: archery, horse riding.

Tony Tolliday

Tony is an exceptionally skilled artisan. He excells in all things made from wood and is able to turn his hand to many crafts. Tony is an expert on botany and medieval plants and crops and has a wealth of information relating to medieval peasant life. He is also skilled with a pollaxe.

Areas of interest: medieval hoticulture, wood "bothering", madieval life.

Lyuba Zaitseva

Lyuba is very creative and is concerned with presenting an authentic display of complex weaving and braiding. She also grows a number of authentic food crops, such as white carrots, for use in our pottage.

There is rumour that she has donned men's clothing and fought with sword in battles. Surely the penalties for such behaviour would prohibit it ?

Areas of interest: western martial arts, painting and crafts from the medieval period, living history, authentic food.