The Marquess of Newcastle's Regiment of Foote, A Sealed Knot Society Regiment.
Hello again! After a quiet winter it’s time for the blog and social media to get up and running again ready for the 2016 season! There’s no better way to start than to have a look back over the highlights of 2015.
We may be saying so ourselves, but we had a rather good year! Lots of great events, plenty of reasons to celebrate and lots of new faces joining the ranks, so here’s a good look at all the good stuff from last year.
Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of content here in the past few weeks, as the Newcastle’s Blog Fairy it’s been a bit on the hectic side so some things had to be put on the back burner! Things are calming down now though so normal, weekly service should be resuming!
A little while ago there was a post on here put together by one of our members, Anne, all about Medical Knowledge and Medicinal Herbs in the 17th Century. Anne, who has a lot of knowledge on the subject wrote a fantastic piece for us to put on here and it was really well received. As time goes on and especially over the winter when there are less battles to tell you about, other members of the regiment have agreed to write posts for the blog sharing their areas of knowledge.
For some it’s something they already have a lot of knowledge about, for others it’s a chance to sit down and do some research and reading about a topic they want to know more about as they put together their article. Today’s article is from Beth who was our ‘Meet the Member’ this month. Beth is a History student at the University of Sheffield and for one of her assignments looked into Witchcraft in the 17th Century and agreed to write a shortened version of what she found for the blog, so without further ado, here is a piece all about Witchcraft. Beth has provided a list of sources and book for further reading at the end of this piece for those who wish to find out more.
Continue reading “Elite Discourse and Witchcraft: Nationalism, Anti-Catholicism and Puritanism.”
As November starts to creep in, it’s time to introduce you to another member of the regiment. This time, one of our Student members is showing that the Pike Block certainly isn’t just for boys, meet Beth P!
Name: Beth Parker
At the weekend, Newcastle’s regiment headed out for their final event of 2015 at Edgehill in Warwickshire. The event was held at Kineton Sports and Social Club, in the village of Kineton, just on the edge of the original battlefield.
Having braved the rain on Saturday, glorious Autumn sunshine accompanied us on the memorial march on Sunday morning and held through to the battle in the afternoon.
Continue reading “Battle of Edgehill, Warwickshire: 24th & 25th October 2015”
This coming weekend is our last event of the season and much as we are sad to see the season drawing to an end, we’ll be enjoying this last event to the full.
Continue reading “Upcoming Event: Battle of Edgehill – 24th & 25th October 2015.”
On Sunday a small number of the regiment headed to Ripple in Worcestershire for the Annual Parade and Service that is held there for The Sealed Knot.
It’s that time again to introduce you to another one of the flock. Back in June we introduced you to Chris and this month it’s time to meet his Dad!
Name: Andrew Barrass
The Newcastle’s Blog Fairy decided it was about time that some of our wonderful members were able to share their knowledge of the period with our delightful blog readers.
Last month we introduced you to one of our members, Anne who has spent her time in the society either being a medic or sharing her medical knowledge of the period on the Living History camps. Anne kindly agreed to be the first to share her knowledge so in our first piece of a more historical nature, as opposed to what we get up to, here is an insight into Medicine and Medical knowledge of the period.
Continue reading “Medical Knowledge and Medicinal Herbs in the 17th Century”
After our big event at Chester over the August Bank Holiday weekend, we knew that the season was starting to wind down, but there were still a few events to look forward to over the Autumn and first up was ‘Warfare Through the Ages’, a mulit-period event being organised by our friends in Tillier’s and being held at Bovington Tank Museum.
We were mainly looking forward to seeing the tanks if we’re all honest, because what’s better than spending a weekend fighting AND looking at tanks?! Nothing, is what!
Continue reading “‘Warfare Through the Ages’ at Bovington Tank Museum – 19th & 20th September 2015”
It’s time to introduce you to some more of the flock again and this time, the Newcastle’s Blog Fairy decided it was time for something a bit different. So far she has introduced you to our C.O Dave, Pike Coroporal Chris, Musketeer ‘Tig’ and Living History participant and ex- Medic Anne. All of them had some very interesting stories to share, but they all had one thing in common, they’re all adults. It’s about time we introduced you to the next generation of Newcastle’s, the ones who’ll be keeping the regiment going in decades to come, so without further ado, it’s time to introduce you to our Baby Newcs!
Name: Romilly
Continue reading “Meet the Member: Baby Newcs Special – September 2015”