THIS summer's Chalke Valley History Festival will include a wider range of living history activities than ever before.
The centrepiece of this year’s programme will be the Second World War displays which will include multiple tanks in action, guns and infantry, all working together.
At the weekend there will also be a tough Special Operations Executive and Commando training course, on which participants can be put through their paces and learn some of the skills needed to operate in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Another major focus will be on King Alfred’s Battle for Wessex. There will be a week of activities at the ever-popular Anglo-Saxon settlement, with more than 100 re-enactors, as well as a recreated Viking longship.
Covering some 2,000 years of history, there will be a variety of demonstrations and displays to choose from, with family-based inter-active events, including Anglo-Saxon Bread Making, Musketry in the American War of Independence, a Battle of Waterloo Diorama with the BBC’s Peter Ginn and Mark Evans, and Tudor Fast Food.
For full details on the festival programme visit cvhf.org.uk
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