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 202517 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