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Living History Weekend & Salute to Sharpe
Saturday 17th until Sunday 18th Apr 2010
10.30
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| Visitors to Firepower will soon be able to step back 200 years to the time of the Napoleonic era. The Living History weekend on Saturday April 17 and Sunday 18 April will celebrate Sharpe and the other characters featured in Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling novels set in the early 19th Century and immortalised in the ITV Sharpe films starring Sean Bean. Staged in association with the Sharpe Appreciation Society, the event will also give visitors the opportunity to meet cast and crew-members, see props from the films as well as displays of Napoleonic weaponry. Actor Jason Salkey (Rifleman 'Harris') will also be there, on the Sunday, and actor Daragh O'Malley (Sgt 'Harper') will also be there for both days. The Sharpe Appreciation Society, the official fan club of the Sharpe TV series, will be selling Sharpe related merchandise.Re-enactment groups with painstakingly researched uniforms and equipment will be converging on the famous museum to bring the history to life. Re-enactment group the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles will be giving displays of period drill and weaponry on both days while the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles will also be there but in the guise of the French Regiment the 62eme. The two groups will hopefully perform a skirmish or two over the weekend.Visitors are invited to come dressed themselves in costumes of the time and will be able to meet other Sharpe fans who travel from throughout Europe for the event. “We are delighted to be hosting this event in the Royal Arsenal with its uniquely historic atmosphere. It will be a fascinating mix of fact and fiction, saluting Sharpe, one of literature’s most famous soldiers. Appropriately, the event will be taking place in the very buildings once occupied by The Duke of Wellington, one of history’s most famous soldiers who also appeared in the Sharpe books.” says Eileen Noon from the Museum “Much of our world-famous collection is from the Napoleonic period when Sharpe is set so we are the perfect venue for this event. We also plan to have some rarely seen Napoleon and Wellington artefacts on display only for the weekend.” |
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