John Sadler - Military Historian

Time Bandits

Time Bandits is an established Living history/historical interpretation team, with myself and Bev Palin as partners, we cover eras from the European Bronze Age until the Cold War working for the community, for schools, museums & Galleries, heritage sites, film, TV & Media. we charge for our time but do often have funding available for specific areas. Currently working with Heart of Blyth and Ray Wind Farm Fund. We have and do work with Heritage Lottery Fund, Northumberland National Park Authority, Revitalising Redesdale and Holocaust Memorial Day, the Sir Stephen Middleton Charitable Trust, Hadrian's Wall 1900.

We do offer a series of regional history tours including Hadrian's Wall together with the Border Reivers.

This week and it's another commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the relief of Belsen at Jesmond Library on Thursday evening, then WWII filming on Saturday and Creswell reivers Sunday.

Fixtures list 2025

17 April – Relief of Belsen – Jesmond Library

19 April – filming

20 April – Cresswell reivers

23 April – Stepney Bank.

25 April – Bloodaxe signing session Saltburn

26 – 27 April – Morpeth Gathering

03 May – WWII at Chillingham

06 May – VE Day at Cambo School (am)

06 May – VE Day at Otterburn School (pm)

08 May – VE Day at S. Shields

10 May – Battlefield Trust Walk – Berwick

10 – 11 May – Devil’s Porridge, WWII

16 May – Late Shows Ouseburn

16 – 25 May – Scottish tour

17 – 18 May – Blyth Battery

31 May – 01 June – Carlisle

07 June WWII at Bamburgh

14 – 25 June – Scottish tour

26 June (eve) Bloodaxe podcast

28 – 29 June – Linlithgow

04 July - WoH

12 - 19 July – Hundred Years War Tour

21 - 22 July – Glencoe tour

23 July – WoH.

25 July – Gibside

26 – 27 July – Caerlaverock

01 – 04 August – JS away

06 – 14 August – JS away

18 – 24 August – WoR

26 August – 06 September – Scottish tour

31 August – Swarland Show

08 September – Howick – Hotspur

14 September – WWII at Cresswell

19 – 27 September – Jacobites

27 September – Yarm Railway

01 October – NCC

13 October – Eirik Bloodaxe at Ponteland Retired Gentlemen’s club.

18 – 19 October – NELSAM

29 October – Newcastle in the Civil Wars – Ryton

30 October – 01 November – Portpatrick


2026

30 June – 05 July – Boudica Tour

06 – 09 July – Monmouth tour

13 – 21 September – Glyndwr Tour

2027

October – William the Conqueror tour