Lord Hopton's

🚨Hoptons are Recruiting🚨 On the May 5th-6th we are in #Newark ,UK to reenact the battle that took place there 372 years ago. We provide all your equipment for free, all we require from you is time. Reply or email lord.hoptons@gmail if interested #englishcivilwar #17thCentury

@C_Stihler @Prof_Murdoch @MuseumCromwell Loudoun's are a great bunch looks like they put on a brilliant show from the videos/pictures I've seen

Funny what you discover when visiting Falkland this morning - a Covenanting Army reconstruction with music and a parade @Prof_Murdoch @MuseumCromwell

@HistorywHilbert @KingsGenerals @KngHnryVIII Thank you, people like yourself can really help with things like this. Great videos mate 🤙

@LordHoptons @KingsGenerals @KngHnryVIII Very sad indeed. I made a video on the topic a while back but I’ll share this around and hopefully it’ll gain some traction if everyone chips in.

Planning permission has been granted to build a car test track on the #bosworth battlefield, this will destroy archaeology and ruin the site of a historically famous #waroftheroses battle. Please sign the petition to prevent this from taking place. bit.ly/2LBUkf6

'And those of you who were unborn who've lived in liberty, remember those who made it so, on the shores of Normandy' #dday75th #dday #Normandy #normandymemorial #GetJimToNumberOne #ww2 #USStateVisit #RoyalNavy

@Warwalks it's been widespread so far on wiki pages and the like it's now accepted as the truth 😐

@LordHoptons Unfortunately, Google (the web) is full of historical stereotypes and myths, replicated by wiki's. The more than one source rule doesn't work either because the basic errors are just copied everywhere. 😒 We need a #17thCentury fact kite mark!

Doing some research into field signs in the #EnglishCivilWar and came across this google 'quick answer' ok parts are true but always hate this stereotype of all #royalists being flamboyant and all #Roundheads being serious and simply clothed. #17thcentury #PIkeandShot #History

@tomb1649 Oh no! I have to congratulate him on his very fancy - boot stocking combination.

@LordHoptons I may have spotted a Cavalier spy in the Parliamentary ranks!

@1stAlterations @Oldwargamer We still do it, I was 14 when I first joined the pike block, 19 now and still love it. Are you interested in getting back involved? 😝

@Oldwargamer It was. To see the armies lined up,banners flying,cannons and cavalry charging you was inspiring frightening & an adrenaline rush! Stretchered off once with whiplash and passed out at Naseby when I went into a push wrong & stopped breathing! Good times.

#EnglishCivilWar #PikeandShot unit ready for #LittleWars. Miniatures are #28mm Renegade and Redoubt. #Parliamentarian #NewModelArmy with a captured #Royalist standard. Was this period the start of the famous red coat? #ECW #Wargaming #wargames #wargamer #miniaturepainting

The importance of the Civil War to western democracy cannot be underestimated - yet few of our towns and cities make anything of their involvement in the struggle. So congratulations to #Newark even their litter bins show armour and siege coins, at the site of Mill Street works.

@Sealed_Knot @EnglishCivilWar @17thCenturyLady @historyenact @PonteCastle @PontefractUK @FriendsNCWCN @civilwarcentre @MuseumCromwell I like the characters page the most, especially the gong farmer, looks great!

Download the app for the upcoming Siege of Pontefract event this weekend - go to bit.ly/civilwarsapp #reenact #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #history

@Jamielear1 @MuseumCromwell @NasebyBattle @DaventryDC Pieter Snayers 1592-1667 born in Antwerp and was famous for this sort of panoramic battle scene.

@LordHoptons @MuseumCromwell @NasebyBattle @DaventryDC Who is the artist of that painting please?

Brilliant to hear that last week @NasebyBattle was awarded £6000 by @DaventryDC to update the information panels around the English Civil War battlefield. Well worth a visit if you haven't been already. I love how the council is supporting such an important part of UK history.

@civilwarcentre We can't wait to get back on the field, only a week to go!

Just 1 week to go until Pikes and Plunder returns! With spectacular scenes of battle at the Sconce, magnificent musket drills at Newark Market & fascinating living history in scenic Newark Castle, you won't want to miss this brilliant bank holiday event! nationalcivilwarcentre.com/events/pikesan…

@PeterTurvey @MTCwilts Because he is a REBEL

@JohnWeinert1 Not happy Ollie Cromwell was a pretender, I go to a march with 300 other volunteers in London to commemorate his death every year, does anyone do that for Cromwell, I don't think so 😝

@JohnWeinert1 Hello there

@EnglishCivilWar I would turncoat if I became king/protectorate of the other side

Hoptons & friends marching through the village of Cheriton to commemorate the battle that took place there during the English Civil War. We also laid a wreath to remember the fallen of more recent wars #EnglishCivilWar #memorial #Hampshire #reenactment #history #Renaissance #Pike