The Sealed Knot is the oldest re-enactment society in the UK, a registered educational charity, and the single biggest re-enactment society in Europe.

 

In 1968 Brigadier Peter Young and a group of friends, following a garden party in cavalier costume to publicise the launch of Peter Young’s book on the Battle of Edgehill, came up with the idea of forming a period army. An idea that soon took off and within two years there were more than one thousand members of this Royalist Army. Now, in our 47th year, with the early addition of the army of Parliament and later the Army of Ireland and Scotland, the membership has grown to make it the biggest society in Europe. The aims of the Society are not to glorify war, but to honour those that died in the many battles of the English Civil War, and to educate the public about those wars and the lives of people in that period.

 

The name of the Society derives from a group, which, during the Protectorate, plotted for the restoration of the monarchy. Here the similarity ends as the present society is NOT politically motivated and has no political affiliation or ambitions.