This past weekend saw our third visit to Whittington Barracks this year and our most ambitious project yet, 500 Years of the Stafford Knot. Over the weekend we displayed camps and combat demonstrations from the early armies under the Stafford Knot banner from the armies of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham right through the Civil Wars, the America Revolution through to the North and South Staffords and Staffordshire Home Guard of World War 2..

Featured over the weekend were 500 Years of Firepower, taking and demonstrating the firearms from medieval times through to the modern day Staffords. Also featured was the unique opportunity to take a guided tour of a World War 1 trench while it was under fire and gas.

We were honoured on the Saturday by a visit from Watchman V the Staffordshire Regiment mascot and many former serving Staffords of many many wars.

It was an honour and a privilege to stage this event.

Look out for our return with the Wars of the Roses weekend and the Wartime Weekend in 2011 .

Paul of Foreign Field has spent the last 3 weeks in a variety of locations providing some costume, performance and advice on the set of an upcoming BBC Drama covering the early years of Morecambe and Wise.

Locations used included Eric Morecambe's old house in Morecambe along with theatres in New Mills, Manchester and the Salford Lads Club as well as a day spent on the picturesque East Lancashire Railway.

The resulting production is due to be screened for BBC2 in December .

IThis year's Elsecar Wartime Weekend must be the loudest battle we've done.

For our sixth visit to Elsecar we really pulled out the stops and had a fantastic time. Once again we featured two battles per day, equipment and experience talks, fashion shows, bomb disposal and our Big Band Dance, but this year's highlight has to be the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire that flew low over the railway. Truly a packed day out.

Sadly we are possibly looking at the end of the Elsecar Wartime Weekend on account of finance however we are campaigning hard and hope to be back.

A new event in the calendar this year as Foreign Field was invited to perform Childrens Drill and static living history at the pictureque Belton House in Lincolnshire.

During the war Belton House was home to the newly formed RAF Regiment which was raised to provide, amongst many other roles, the guarding and defence of airfields.

Despite the weather it was a popular and friendly event and we look forward to seeing the regiment in the future.

This year saw us bring a new style of event to Avoncroft Museum. As a complement to their already popular Wars of the Roses Weekend we returned in early August to stage a Medieval Tournament.

Horse shows, entertainments, medieval team games, archery contests and dance lessons provided a cracking build up to the final showpiece with our wooden lance shattering full tilt jousting tounrment.

The event smashed the previous attendance record at Avoncroft by 50% and we will be returning in 2011 to stage this annual festival.

Guesting at an event down south this year Foreign Field was providing Childrens' Drill and training as well as Costumed Living History Talks at the stunning Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as part of the Navy's Flagship festival, Navy Days.

The crowds were extreme as over 30,000 visitors flocked in over a 3 day period.

Navy Days 2011 will be in Plymouth and we hope to be there as well.

Once again we returned to Whittington Barracks, home of the Staffordshire Regiment for a swinging weekend of fun and firepower and this year the weather played ball as well with scorching temperatures throughout the weekend.

This year we included new shows such as the US Paratrooper Demonstrations and medical displays as well as the regular shows and entertainments

Look out later in the year when we are doing 500 Years of the Stafford Knot.

On a glorious July weekend some 7,000 people once again descended on Ponderosa Farm in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire for a weekend of 1940s fun and thrills.

This year's new features were a pair of firing 25lb artillery pieces and their new dance venue with more of a hangar dance feel.

For our second year at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings we came back with more than before, adding Americans into the mix along with the works of SOE and a bigger and louder battle than before.

The weather held out for us all weekend and once again we set a new attendance record for Avoncroft Museum, beating the previous record which we had set last year.

We look forward to 2011 where we hope to break the records again.

Launching a new multi-period for Woburn Abbey we journeyed to picturesque Bedfordshire where we took our place amongst 1,000 years of history ranging from the Norman Conquest to the Second World War.