For the third year, Foreign Field were invited to stage childrens entertainment for Eventplans on the Home Front event at the beautiful Rufford Abbey.

This year has seen us expand childrens drill into not just other periods of history but also add extra training to our Second World War portfolio with the launch of our Childrens Airborne Training teaching parachute landings, advancing on hostile positions and securing a fallen comrade.

If you would like our childrens drill training then pleaase do not hesitate to contact us.

Foreign Field are now supporting online reservations for dance tickets for the Elsecar Wartime Weekend. To reserve your ticket visit the web page here and fill in the form.

You will be asked for full name, date of birth, the number of tickets and a password as well as basic contact details.

On receipt of these we will reserve the chosen number of tickets for you for collection and payment on the door.

We hope to see you there.

We are half way through our 2009 season and already we have received 15 bookings for next year already. New clients such as Midland Railway are taking on Foreign Field for our educational weekends of fun and entertainment and now Whittington Barracks is discussing increasing the number of shows we perform during the season.

We are currently in talks to provide a 15th Century show for Whittington Barracks as well as restaging the 500 Years of the Stafford Knot, and also discussing a Medieval Tournament Weekend for Avoncroft Museum.

Including amongst these our new kit fair for reenactors and an increasing number of demonstrations and murder mystery weekends 2010 is already shaping up to be our busiest season yet and we are still 8 months away from it.

We hope you will join us both this year and next.

Should you or your venue be interested in a Foreign Field show of any period of history right up to all periods of history in one show then please do not hesitate to contact us.

For the first weekend in August we returned to Ponderosa Farm and Rural Therapy Centre to take things back a further 500 years to the Wars of the Roses and a festival surrounding the battle that took place nearby on New Years Eve 1460 - the Battle of Wakefield.

Over the two days we staged two medieval battles per day over earthwork fortifications, a mounted skill at arms show and a lance shattering joust alongside archery and cannon demonstrations and fashion shows.

With a camp filled with interactive living history and craft demonstrations from cookery to armour making this was a fantastic event for all the family.

Talks have begun to stage the event next year when we hope to be including the battles of Wakefield and Towton as well as the return of our joust.

We closed off our July events with a welcome return to Whittington Barracks and the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, the home of the South Stafford Airborne.

A bad weather forecast hampered the turnout on Sunday but it was jnot enough to stop play by any means and the shows ploughed through the rain with British determination and grit.

As the smoke cleared from our closing battle and the crowd died down we had once again set records for attendance at the museum by quadrupling their normal weekend attendance at a special event.

Following the success of this event it has been rebooked to return next year along with the restaging of "500 Years of the Stafford Knot" and a new Wars of the Roses weekend.

Mid July saw Foreign Field assisting with Brigstock Village's Operation Pied Piper festival.

This pleasant Northamptonshire village received evacuated children from London and other major cities at the outbreak of war and to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Operation Pied Piper the village welcomed back several of its original evacuees and held a festival for all to learn about the experiences of these children.

Foreign Field provided military camps, home and house demonstrations throughout the two day event as well as swinging entertainment and education, and to perform such a task in front of the original evacuees was a worrying task.

Our thanks go out to all reenactors who travelled to take part, the village of Brigstock for such an overwhelming spirit to get behind the event and everyone who came out to visit or participate.

It was an honour and privilege to work there.

Having staged a taster day for the 1940s in 2008 Ponderosa came back to stage a much bigger event over their impressively large site this last weekend.

Covering the farm, the restaurant, the lakes and the surrounding fields we staged a Wartime Weekend where there was always something to see from battels and weaponry demonstrations, to military vehicles in action, through to laundry, music and song.

Locals and travellers alike flocked to the site to enjoy the range of Foreign Field displays including living history, two battles per day, singers, dancers, the laundry demonstration and the childrens infantry training.

The weekend set a new attendance record for the farm, our second record breaking event this year and the dates for next year have been booked again. We are looking forward to returning both next year and for the Medieval and English Civil War events we have yet to stage there in 2009.

A fantastic venue and an incredible day out, thanks to all reenactors, performers, farm staff, and visitors who made the event what it was.

Summer kicked off with our new Wartime Weekend at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings. A charming relaxed event in a beautiful site that no matter how full it gets retains a peaceful atmosphere of history.

Having taken over the management of this event this year we are proud to have set an all time record on the site for the number of visitors through the door in a weekend as well as the number of annual memberships to the museum sold over the weekend.

Reenactors and members of the public enjoyed an event the style of which had not been tried at the museum before and it paid off with a fantastic day out for families and enthusiasts of all ages.

Discussions have begun immediately to stage the event again next year with more shows, camps and reenactors. Our thanks to all who took part and worked so hard to make it a success.

We look forward to seeing you next year.