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Colchester Living History Festival
24th-25th May 2026
Venue: Alresford Hall, Essex
Website: www.alresfordhall.com/colchester-living-history-festival
Step back in time this late May Bank Holiday as 1,000 re-enactors, roaring cannons, and thundering cavalry come to Colchester, for an extraordinary English Civil War re-enactment presented by The Sealed Knot, Europe’s largest historical re-enactment society.