The Nykobing Middelaldercenter in Denmark has been around since 1980s, recreating a small medieval village. In 2023 the village was inhabitated by more than 100 15th century artisans from the Swiss reenactment group the Company of St George. 

With: Ben Woldring, Thit Birk Petersen and Maria Neijman

When Sofia went to the US earlier this year she also had the opportunity to visit Barrington Living history farm in Texas. 

Depicting Washington County life in the 1850s, costumed interpreters carrying out everyday farm chores. The antebellum house of Dr. Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, has been restored on the grounds. A kitchen, a barn, slave quarters and other outbuildings from the Jones cotton plantation have been reconstructed. 

With:

Park Ranger, Lead agricultural interpreter Ben Baumgartner

Sofia went to the US earlier this year and had the opportunity to meet some interesting groups in the field of recreated history. Kampfgruppe Steiner is portraying a world war II German unit. In this interview we get a short overview of the current ww2-scene in the US, and germans in particular.

with: Patrick Rinker

How is reenactment in Finland? And who are allowed as a member of the medieval reenactment group Merry Swans? These and many other questions do now have an answer. Listen to our deep dive with Finland in recreated history!

With: Mervi Pasanen, Elina Sojonen and Katja Regevik

One of the interesting blogs mentioned:  https://swanrivercrafts.com/

In November 2018 a conference called ReConference - aiming to examine and develop the reenactment scene - took place in Copenhagen, Denmark with participants from all over the world. We were there talking to reenactors, researchers, museum curators and the organizers. 

In this episode we interview viking reenactor Alban Depper - jarl of one of the largest viking societies in Europe, Dmitry Savchenko - jouster, main interest horses in war history, Eugene Leonov - researcher on big data, Martin Lindblad - ww2 reenactor and Jon Iver Helgaker - writer and director for the Netflix tv-show Norsemen.

The conference was filmed, and you can watch the videos on Youtube: Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Welcome to the first episode of this podcast about reenactment and living history. In November 2018 a conference called ReConference - aiming to examine and develop the reenactment scene - took place in Copenhagen, Denmark with participants from all over the world. We were there talking to reenactors, researchers, museum curators and the organizers. 

In this episode we interview textile researcher Jane Malcolm-Davies, museum and reenactment researcher Jesper Hillbom, ww1 museum employee and PhD Kristian Bruhn, and the conference organizers Ingrid Galadriel and Rickard Åkesson.

The conference was filmed, and you can watch the videos on Youtube: Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Links mentioned in the episode:

The Centre for Textile research, mentioned by Jane Malcolm-Davies.