Skirmish Magazine

05/10/2026

Our next show will be the Artisans and Reenactors Market when we will be bringing copies of our printed Back catalogue for purchase at a bargain price.
Our warehouse is literally bursting at the seams, and needs some space - so from Issue number 1 (First published in 1999) up to our last printed issue 130, you can grab a bargain!

05/10/2026

Just having a break for lunch, and watched a BBC Documrntary called "What happened at the Somme".
A fascinating search to uncover information that is still coming to light 100 years after this terrible conflict. And still, the human race is once again on the brink of war around the world. Will we ever learn? That's why telling children about past history matters - at Skirmish we try to give a balanced viewpoint - and would love to hear from our readers about what and why they choose Living History as a hobby.

05/10/2026

Some WW2 Women's history

“I never felt that I had any idea of the bigger picture of things.”

Miss Mary Evans, later Sister St Paul, served in Hut 6, listing incoming Luftwaffe Enigma signals.

Signals were intercepted at stations around the country and sent to Bletchley Park, where Mary and her colleagues worked on the coded material.

“This coded material came into our hut and if we were lucky enough to know the right requirements for the day we could work on these.”

Like many who worked at Bletchley Park, Mary had no idea how significant her work was. Everyone had sworn to keep their work secret.

“I rather think that other people simply thought that we were doing something quite useless like sticking on stamps.”

Read Mary’s full interview from the Bletchley Park Oral History Project here: https://ow.ly/J3cN50ZQ4fY

Interview recorded June 2019.

05/10/2026

A fantastic wedding recreation

05/10/2026

Some American War of Independence viewpoints from a US based living historian

05/10/2026

And that's it for 2026 Battles Through History - roll on next year!

05/10/2026

Fun at BTH - steampunk napoleonics?

Battles Through History!!

No point walking to the battlefield if you have other means.
Huzzah!!

More great pictures to follow from a great weekend.

04/10/2026

At the Battles Through History event today and tomorrow. We were deeply disappointed at present day standards which have obviously dropped in His Majesty's Foot Guards.

Questionable personal hygiene, facial [and bodily] hair maintained in an unkempt manner, unpolished paws, cross-belt off centre and dubious non-standard Japanese Katana side arm!

A National disgrace!

Letter to the Times on the way!