An actress playing the role of Mary Queen of Scots at a Scottish fair in 2003.

A one-on-one combat reenactment demonstration at a Scotish Games gathering.

Living history is often confused with reenactments and/or reenactors. Living history is an educational medium used by museums to educate the public in particulars areas of history. These museums utilitze museum professionals, historians and trained interpreters in order to convey the most correct historical information available. An actress playing the role of Mary Queen of Scots at a Scottish fair in 2003. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 1536 pixel, file size: 501 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Living history Renaissance... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 1536 pixel, file size: 501 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Living history Renaissance... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 560 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (957 × 1024 pixel, file size: 504 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Living history Combat... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 560 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (957 × 1024 pixel, file size: 504 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Living history Combat...

This may be confined to wearing period dress and perhaps explaining relevant historical information, either in role (also called first-person interpretation) or out of character (also called third-person interpretation). While many museums allow their staff to move in and out of character, so as to better answer visitor questions, some encourage their staff to stay in role at all times. This technique was pioneered by the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village in Alberta, Canada^{[citation needed]}. In Character (IC) is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the characters, rather than the world of the players. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Heritage interpretation. ... Out of Character (OOC) is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the players, rather than the world of the characters. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village is an open-air museum that uses costumed historical interpreters to recreate pioneer settlements in east central Alberta, Canada. ... Motto: Fortis et liber(Latin) Strong and free Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Official languages English (see below) Government - Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong - Premier Ed Stelmach (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 28 - Senate seats 6 Confederation September 1, 1905 (split from Northwest Territories) (8th [Province]) Area Ranked...

Living history portrayal usually involves demonstrating everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning, medical care or, particularly, skills and crafts. Depending on the time portrayed, these might include such crafts as spinning, sewing, loom, tablet or tapestry weaving, dyeing, basketry, ropemaking, leather-working or cobbling, metal, stone or glass working and a range of woodworking such as turning. Considerable research is often applied to identifying authentic techniques and often recreating replica tools and equipment. Handicraft, also known as craftwork or simply craft, is a type of work where useful and decorative devices are made completely by hand or using only simple tools. ... Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ...

Reenactment groups often attempt to organize such displays in an encampment or display at an event, and have a separate area for tactical or military activity. This is sometimes referred to as a Reenactment. Whilst some such exhibits may be conducted in character as a representation of typical everyday life, more are specifically organized to inform the public and so might include an emphasis on craft activities, or other day-to-day activities, which are convenient to stage and interesting to watch and which are typically explained out of character.

During the 1990s reenactment groups, primarily American Civil War, began to show interest in this style of interpretation and began using it at their reenactments.

Living History may also be used to describe a method of teaching history whereby students try their hand at such activities and experience some aspects of period lifestyle guided by historical interpreters, albeit sometimes with less scrupulous standards of authenticity.

Photographs of Living History exhibits are increasingly used in historical text books to illustrate aspects of daily life.^[1] Living History involves thorough research on the part of the museum staff, volunteers and interpreters.

References

See also

• Living museum
• Living History Australia
• Experimental archaeology
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Plimoth Plantation
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Old Salem
• Conner Prairie
• Cosmeston Medieval Village
• Rowany Festival

A living museum is a type of museum that recreates to the fullest extent conditions of a culture, natural environment or historical period. ... A wide range of historical periods are focused on by Australian Living History groups. ... Experimental archaeology employs a number of different methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches in order to generate and test hypotheses or an interpretation, based upon archaeological source material, like ancient structures or artifacts. ... Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ... Categories: Stub | Living museums | Plymouth County, Massachusetts ... Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts which re-creates life in rural New England during the 1830s. ... Old Salem is a living history museum that operates within the restored Moravian community Salem. ... 1886 base ball demonstration at Liberty Corner. ... Cosmeston Medieval Village is a living history village in the Vale of Glamorgan near Penarth and Cardiff in south Wales. ...

External Links

• Living History at the Open Directory Project
• The Great Northwood Bowmen Medieval Longbow Archery and re-enactment Society, re-enacting life in the 15th century, based in London.
• reenactor.Net The World-Wide Home of Re-enacting
• ReenactorClassifieds The free online marketplace for living historians.
• Widoeghe Living history and re-enactment.
• Reenactors.TV Reenactors & Living Historians of all eras involved in film and television work.
• [1] Accurate living history event that

demonstrates historical Victorian and Civil War reenactments by amateur and academic historians. The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ...

• Lego V Living History Group in Tennessee
• Rapska Fjera
• GermanParatrooper.org WWII German Paratrooper Reenacting