THE LIVING History Festival – the biggest event of the year at Avoncroft Museum – takes place next Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26.
Now in its fifth year, the event has become one of the UK’s leading multi-period history festivals, boasting more than 300 re-enactors and showcasing 1,000 years of history.
Visitors can go back in time to experience life from the Bronze Age to the Cold War.
There will be canons, muskets, swords, spears, military and domestic history, including Roman gladiators battling it out in the arena, Ancient Britons, Vikings, Napoleonic troops and soldiers from the First and Second World Wars.
Depictions of domestic and agricultural life will include cooking, dancing, traditional crafts and past times, medieval weaver demonstrations and trader stalls selling artefacts from jewellery and hats to handmade tools, costumes, cloth and historic pottery.
The New Guesten Hall will be a hub of food, music from the ages by the Stream of Sound Choir, dancing with group Gloriana and the Bromsgrove Society of Model Engineers’ miniature railway.
Visit avoncroft.org.uk/product/living-history-festival-2026 for more information and tickets, including discounts.
