Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Not long til we return to wonderful Didcot Railway Centre on the 3-5 May with our Steam into the '40s event. Period steam and diesel engines working around the site. 2 working lines with different scenarios, 1940 and 1944. Lots of characters with stories to tell Talks on different organisations 000
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 04/04/2025youtu.be/GGMSTGuOotg?... For those of you on here who haven't seen it, this is the Weald and Downland Museum video of our Candlemas experience end of January.youtu.beLiving for a Week in 1461 | Living HistoryYouTube video by Weald & Downland Living Museum 001
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Typical. Maybe we should all dress in our 1461 clothes, get together and play Call of Duty, or D&D, and film that!! 140
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The video made of us in action at The Weald and Downland Living Museum (end Jan) for our Candlemas 1461 experience is going viral on YouTube. youtu.be/GGMSTGuOotg?... Hope you enjoy! Please do leave comments. 1152
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Today on the bench, my new Elizabethan rapier belt hanger, hand sewn in saddle stitch, with 10 holes per inch x 48 " x 2. Scalpel for scale. Also revisiting a very special old friend, refurbished and newly gilded. 020
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Earlier this week, I had the enormous privilege and a whole lotta fun portraying big bad 'enery the 8th in Warwick for a photo shoot. With special thanks to Tabitha Boydell and all the photographers who made the day such fun. 051
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 09/03/2025All my own work. 12th C handwritten style Breviary on pergamenata, Hand sewn and bound in oak boards with leather cover 161
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Next video. Napoleonic soldiers firing a musket volley in Leatherhead, in early December 2024, as part of a Regency Christmas event 030
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Thought I'd share some video content today of some recent projects. Let's start with a refurbishment of my favourite sword, stripped, polished, and rebuilt by Matt Lewis, with some brazing by Stui Duncombe to repair a crack in the cross guard. Regilded by MMF. Original is in the Royal Armouries. 020
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Preparing for an outing tomorrow as our most famous, or more correctly, infamous monarch, Henry VIII 041
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Today, oop North, in the land of the Wigan kebab. Teaching ww2 for 2 days in amazing school with 3 of us. #worldbookday #WorldWar2 #bestschoolworkshops #HomeFront #assaultcourse 021
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Thought I might as well pop a pic of The Duchess on here. She is a 1934 Standard Ten. 020
Blacnite @bkhistorical.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Good to be here! My first post, learning to fly this. 081