The Sealed Knot helps bring history alive every year at period houses throughout the country where you can talk to major historical figures, try out a few recipes, learn about the life of a soldier on the march and maybe even "take the King's shilling". 
What better way to teach children about the period than with a little "hands-on" experience. The Sealed Knot has been heavily involved in education for many years, giving school talks and displays about life in the Civil War throughout the UK. If your school or college is running a project on the Civil War period, the Sealed Knot can provide you with experts on everything from cookery to clothes, education and politics, through to weapons and battle strategies.
The Society was founded by a distinguished Soldier and the Country's foremost Military Authority on the Civil Wars Brigadier Peter Young D.S.O., M.C., F.H., and a group of friends following a party in Cavalier costume held in the summer of 1968. The idea of forming an "army" of the period was floated and quickly gained wide interest so much so that within two years the membership had topped the one thousand mark and a second, Parliamentarian, Army was formed within the Society.
In June 1971 the Society was incorporated as a Limited Company and in 1974 was granted official recognition as a registered Charity. Over the years the Society has performed re-enactments throughout the country, including participation in the Silver Jubilee celebrations at Windsor Castle in 1977 and has evolved into a national organisation of some considerable prestige, a fact recognised by the grant to the Society of its own Coat of Arms in 1983.Purposes and Aims
The Purposes and Aims of the Society are to promote research into and the study of and public interest in the history of the Civil Wars by the following means:-
- The performance of public re-enactments of Battles, Sieges and other events of the period with a view to educating the public and encouraging an interest our heritage
- The organisation of discussions or lectures, the publishing of books and the making of documentaries of the period
- The erection of memorials of Battles
The Society is a non-profit making organisation but through the performance of Battles and other fund raising events has been able to raise money for other Charities. At the same time however, it is a voluntary Society of enthusiasts and friends who meet to indulge their common interests and it is a prime object of the Society events that they should be enjoyed by the members.
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 ambitions whatsoever.
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An Attack by a Parliamentarian Horse 