Following the unfortunate cancellation of the Southern Kit Fair due to weather earlier in the year it was good to get the Northen Kit Fair going ahead after the season. This year we had 35 traders and over 350 roleplayers attend.

Dates for next year will be 23-24 October at the same venue and we look forward to seeing many of you there.

The Southern Kit Fair returns to Bristol on 13-14 February 2010 at the new venue. Further details are here: .

2009 has seen the welcome return of this small event at Hughenden Manor for Eventplan and Foreign Field was contracted to not only bring our well known Children's Infantry experience to this wartime mapping station but also to work with Lost Patrol to perform a joint British and American paratrooper display.

Our Childrens Drill and Costumed Talks are available for any venue as well as schools. For further information please contact us. .

For our final large scale event with Ponderosa farm this year we brought hostilities 200 years forward to the time of Cromwell and the nearby Battle of Adwalton Moor, fought just 3 miles from the site itself.

Across the two days of the show we provided musket drills, pike drills, cannon displays, fashion shows and of course the pounding battle itself delivering a Royalist victory that all but wiped out Parliamentary support in the north of England for 2 years.

We will be back at Ponderosa next year, keep an eye on the calendar for the dates.

Over 1,500 descended on the small South Yorkshire railway where we started out as we staged a spectacular 2 day event for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities.

As with previous years we staged the battle for the station, the childrens drill training, the fashion shows and dance, and this year we introduced the work of the Home Guard in bomb disposal with their demonstration of Butterfly Bomb disarmament, and also brought the challenges of the wartime housewife with our cooking and rationing demonstration.

The battle stormed through the station as had done previously, however as a special measure this year the railway kindly allowed us to use the locomotive itself to deliver our troops into the combat zone.

A thrilling day out was had by visitors, reenactors and volunteers alike and we look forward to next year.

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.