History Visits
Day Hire
I love to chat - especially about things I'm interested in and passionate about. So if you hire me all day, I will thoroughly enjoy myself!
My full outdoor 'camp' consists of a large awning (where my table is set up), with a small tent to one side which is accessible and viewable to the public. If you don't want the 'camp', I can work indoors/outdoors with minimal equipment.
At the agreed time I will arrive on site and set up my display, which will be active for up to 7 hours. I bring my own lunch and refreshments, but will require a short break to eat and rest. All the same resources are provided as for a preset session - replica and reproduction objects to handle and evidence to look at (plus some extras), and I will go into much more detail and provide a much broader view of the subject.
The awning (shown without the tent).
My fee is £45 for the first hour and then £15 for every additional hour after that, plus 45 pence per mile travel allowance. Contact me here.
Choose from the following topics:
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Braids, Cords, and Plaits - teaching a variety of Anglo-Saxon through Viking, to Medieval techniques; or a technique of a specified time-frame.
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Medieval Entertainments - board games, nursery rhymes, physical play and games, and toys.
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The Leech - covering aspects of medicine from Pagan times up to 1485, including such things as a pagan 'charm for flying venom', how to use Bradmore's Extractor, and what you might pay if you were cured - or not! A specific time period can be chosen for this day, which I will focus on.
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Leynor Flaxwyf - a wool-working/flax fiber processing day, covering Anglo-Saxon to Medieval techniques, including spinning demonstrations and the chance to have a go at breaking, scutching and heckling flax.
Braids, Cords, and Plaits
Teaching a Viking Braid at the Maritime Woodbridge event (outdoors with table). 2005.
Early Anglo-Saxon braids at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village. 2022.
A reconstruction in knitting wool of the 9-strand braid found with an 8th century burial in Orsett, Essex.
The Leech
The Medieval and the Modern! 2023
Arrow in the Face, Time and Tide Museum. 2011
Pagan Anglo-Saxon treatment for a wound! West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, 2005
Bradmore's Extractor - a tool he designed and made.
Leynor Flaxwyf
Viking Flax - flax mallet based on the textile tool found in the Viking Oseberg ship burial, and a breaking stump.
Showing off the quality of fleece at Moyses Hall (indoors with table). 2011
"The most interesting craftsperson I think for Wel and I today was the lady demonstrating linen production from flax. .... I must say it was one of the best and most informative re-enactment displays I’ve seen in a very long time and a big thanks to the lady for giving so much of her time to explain it to us."
Posted by kazhoney on the Happening History blog: (https://happeninghistory.co.uk/category/crafts/) on April 10th 2016
Day Hire at Craeftiga - Sutton Hoo (7th century)
Above - rippling a bundle of flax over a cloth to collect the seeds at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, sometime in the '90's
Left - Happy flax-workers at Harlequin Festival 2023 (an event I did with my group NANMA - Norwich and Norfolk Medieval Association)
Historic Entertainments
Blind Man's Buff from the 14th century Luttrell Psalter.
Stone found in Norwich Castle Well with a Nine Man's Morris layout carved into it.
My game boards are available to buy.
