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Re-enactment Rik

A student of history and professional historical person bringing the past to life.

Sharing an interest and passion for the past with the public through educational workshops, consultation, and offering characters from the past for museums and heritage, and for film and TV.

Learn more about Re-enactment Rik or check out the services offered by Historic Echoes.

Historic Echoes

Re-enactment Rik explores various topics from history, on his YouTube channel, and via live video links with classes, home schoolers, youth, and interest groups who join for a ‘chat from the past’.

You can get a taste of these by visiting the Echoes of the Past.

Latest posts on Instagram

Today is the first of May - and #Mayday is associated with all sorts of things, so here I am at Sarehole Mill as a Victorian trade unionist, attempting to get people to sign the People's Charter for #InternationalWorkersDay Later this week there will be an exciting announcement - can you guess what it might be?! I have delivered short videos on a number of topics - broadly based from my 'chat from the past' live video workshops - but a friend has suggested I do some videos addressing some of the most prevalent stories from the past which are just...wrong. Happy Saint George's day! I was working on something for my thesis yesterday, a map displaying the civil war defences of Nottingham based on a variety of sources (particularly the archaeology of R. Butler). My history shorts are coming towards an end - not because I have nothing more to say, but because thus far the format has been to have a 'chat from the past' with a group and then record a few short snippets of information or to talk about an item or artefact...and I've no more bookings! It occurred to me that it was probably getting on for a year since I started making videos...well, it turns out that the first of April was my first 'proper' video, so I am clearly rubbish at remembering dates (not great for a historian!) but there has been lots going on so maybe I get a pass... If you wondered what these images were for...it was a couple of short videos, the first being about #armour and #arrows (and armour somewhat more generally). Last of my Chats from the Past last night and I'm really privileged to have spoken with lots of great folks since I started these after Christmas.