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 WWII at Blyth Library on Tuesday then my 100 Years war Tour begins on Friday for a week..

Fixtures list 2025

06 July – Cresswell Tower

08 July – Blyth Library

12 - 19 July – Hundred Years War Tour

20 - 21 July – Glencoe tour

23 July – WoH.

25 July – Gibside

26 – 27 July – Caerlaverock

29 July – Gibside

30 July – Armstrong tours

31 July – WoH

02 August – Land of O&I

06 – 14 August – JS away

18 August – Stepney Bank

21 August – Armstrong tours

23 August – Elemore Music festival

25 August – Elsdon Show

27 August – 06 September, Scottish tour.

31 August – Swarland Show

08 September – Howick – Hotspur

13 September – Battlefield Trust walk, Otterburn

14 September – WWII at Cresswell

19 – 27 September – Jacobites

26 September – Railway event

27 September – Yarm Railway

01 October – NCC

04 October – Battlefield Trust Walk – Hexham

04 October – Kohima lecture Carlisle

07 October – Age-UK Blyth

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

18 – 19 October – NELSAM

27 October – Age-UK Bedlington

29 October – Newcastle in the Civil Wars – Ryton

25 October – Resistance, Stockton

30 October – 01 November – Portpatrick

31 October – Berwick LHS?

05 November – Age-UK Ponteland

07 November – Age-UK Cramlington

09 November – D-Day podcast

11 November – Remembrance Hartlepool

21 November – Age-UK Morpeth

26 November – Age-UK Corbridge

28 November – Age-UK Ashington

16 December – Heugh Battery


2026

10 – 12 April – Morpeth Gathering

30 May – Auckland Castle

30 May – Sunderland History Fair

27 – 28 June - Linlithgow

30 June – 05 July – Boudica Tour

06 – 09 July – Monmouth tour

25 – 26 July – Caerlaverock

13 – 21 September – Glyndwr Tour

2027

October – William the Conqueror tour