May, as usual brought with it rain but this wasn't sufficient to stop thousands of people coming out to take part in the annual Pudsey Carnival.

Foreign Field started the show by parading troops of both Axis and Aliied forces through the town centre led by our enthusiastic RSM, pausing for a moment of remembrance at the town cenotaph.

The show closed with a Foreign Field battle demonstration featuring an allied airborne assault on a German fuel depot.

At the close of the show we were delayed in leaving by enthusiastic members of the public wanting to know more about our events and the history behind them.

A big thank you to all who took part.

Plans have already begun for our 2008 season by visiting the venue in Sedgefield, Co. Durham for an English Civil War spectacle. The May Day Bank Holiday weekend in 2008 will beat to the sound of the drum and musket as the forces of the King clash with Cromwell's New Model Army.

Foreign Field has been approached to arrange the presence of hundreds of combatants as well as a full domestic living history camp featuring many of the authentic skills and traditions of the time. All funds raised from this event will be going to the Sedgefield Veterans Group and a charity of their choosing.

We are proud to be supporting this event, which will steadily grow in size over the first three years to build up to the largest event of its kind in the north of England.

The 1st and 2nd September will see Foreign Field returning to the Heritage Railway market thanks to a new cost-sharing partnership agreement with Elsecar Preserved Railway Group.

Following the staging of two previous smaller Wartime Weekends the arrangement will pave the way into a regular annual spectacular featuring battles, drill, weapons displays and the Home Front.

Also coming under the Foreign Field banner this year will be the popular Big Band Dance featuring the Ockbrook Big Band as the headline act and compered by 40s Entertainer Paul Harper.

Previous Wartime Weekends at Elsecar have been active, educational and popular and Foreign Field is taking this bigger, better and louder than before.

If you think that your venue would welcome this sort of input please contact Foreign Field and we will discuss an arrangement.

The event will take place on 1-2 September at Elsecar Heritage Centre in South Yorkshire.

Our maiden year has come to a close following superb weekends at Stirling Castle, the Best of British Festival and Brownhills Military Weekend.

Our 1940s musical evening for the Royal British Legion set the sun on a busy first year.

As the new year rises the preparations for a busier 2007 season have commenced with the inaugural Live Role Players' Kit Fair marking both the start of our season and the first of our Trade Fairs, and explosive summer events for the Staffordshire Regiment Museum and Sedgefield Veterans.

We are looking forward to both the new relationships we have forged with new venues as well as, of course, maintaining excellence amongst our existing clients.

Visitors, reenactors, staff members and the band braved the Scottish weather for Historic Scotland's 1940s weekend at Stirling Castle.

Previous events have focussed in on the war years, but this year staff at Historic Scotland wanted to highlight the exciting changes in postwar Britain too - in fashion, music and social attitudes, as illustrated by the jitterbuggers on the left. Hemlines crept up and inhibitions went out of the window as our grandparents and great-grandparents really got into the swing of things.

Foreign Field provided one of the focal points of the weekend offering three performances a day of a selection of swing classics to illustrate the mood of the period. From the soulful sounds of Glenn Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade' to the upbeat optimism of 'New York, New York' Foreign Field, backed up by dancers of the Swing Doctors and Edinburgh University Swing Society set the mood and kept the party atmosphere alive.

As Burns famously observed, 'The best-laid plans o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley'. As far as Stirling Castle was concerned, this was the weather. As the rain came down (and down!) it was necessary for other attractions to dive for shelter to protect vulnerable vehicles and antique clothing

Not so with the band! True to the spirit of the forties, these guys weren't going to be stopped by a torrential downpour and gallantly played on against all odds, even improvising a little when the notes on the music were starting to run with the rain. Their delighted audience couldn't resist and stuck with them till the final toe-splashing strains of 'In The Mood'.

Throughout the weekend Historic Scotland provided entertaining and educational displays of drill and training, the work of the Special Operations Executive, the Land Army as well as 1940s fashion under the watchful eyes of the military and the ever present nuisance of the spivs.

A cracking weekend was had by staff, performers and visitors alike.

The Brownhills Community Association has joined forces with Foreign Field Events to host the first annual Brownhills Military Weekend for the 25th Anniversary of the Community Association.

This is the first event of its kind in the Brownhills area and is raising the funds for a range of the Association's projects with disadvantaged children and low income families.

With the co-operation of representatives of the Armed Forces and Cadet Groups this all comes together to a large festival of hardware, people, fun and remembrance.

The grounds of Brownhills Community College are host to an impressive display of Second World War Living History featuring demonstrations of the vehicles and weapons culminating in a spectacular battle across barbed wire and mines to overpower the German Camp.

The Saturday night brings out the "Midlands Sweetheart" Jill Daniels along with supporting acts to take everyone back to the blitz spirit.

The event takes place on 22-23 July 2006 at Brownhills Community College.