{"id":14058,"date":"2017-08-01T05:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2017-08-01T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T07:13:56","slug":"english-civil-war-re-enactments-come-to-barnstaple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/english-civil-war-re-enactments-come-to-barnstaple","title":{"rendered":"English Civil War re-enactments coming to Barnstaple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Civi War returns to Barnstaple in a free week of re-enactments, packed with historical activities that culminates is a live battle in Rock Park. From 7<sup>th<\/sup> to 13<sup>th<\/sup> August Barnstable Town Council will be marking the town&#8217;s role in the English Civil War, that happened from 1642 to 1651, by hosting a packed programme, staring on Monday (7 August).<\/p>\n<p>The event begins with an Open House at the Guildhall, running form 10:30am to 3:30pm, with local costumed actors giving interactive tours. The town Guildhall will also host over the week, Civil War Play in a Day for children on 9<sup>th<\/sup> August (Wednesday), from 10am to 4pm. It will open on Thursday, for Trepanning Through History and for children&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Sealed Knot, the living history group, will bring to life history, from 11am to 3pm, on Saturday, at St. Anne &#8216;s Arts and Community Centre and a children&#8217;s workshop. The big guns will be brought out on 13 August (Sunday) , at the Rock Park with cannon and musket fining, with battle re-enactments, a living history camp, plus family fun from 11am to 3pm, that includes children&#8217;s activities, bouncy castle, face-painting and much more .<\/p>\n<p>Julie Hunt, mayor of Barnstaple, said they were so excited about the week of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northdevongazette.co.uk\/news\/barnstaple-civil-war-week-2017-1-5126783\">free events<\/a>, that celebrates the proud history of Barnstaple and ends in Rock Park with a re-enactment of the battle. Visit the council&#8217;s website (barnstapletowncouncil.co.uk), or the Barnstaple Town Council Facebook page, for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Civi War returns to Barnstaple in a free week of re-enactments, packed with historical activities that culminates is a live battle in Rock Park. From 7th to 13th August Barnstable Town Council will be marking the town&#8217;s role in the English Civil War, that happened from 1642 to 1651, by hosting a packed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14061,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions\/14061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}