Tag: Re-enactment

By David Hearn (Independent Scholar) Dressing up as a soldier of The Diehard Company or brave Victorian Bluejacket might be a fun way to spend a day but is it actually “history”? Does the authenticity of the costume being worn matter? How can trudging around a field at a county show or showing visitors around a stately home advance the study of history one single step? Of course none of these questions are ones that should be put to the

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