This looks like an interesting selection of events. Find them on Facebook. If you want to know more about 1549 you can read the wiki
This year is the 475th anniversary of the 1549 Western Rebellion, and Commotion Times is going to tour to commemorate it.
8 JUNE, SAMPFORD COURTENAY, DEVON.
The sleepy north Devon village where the rebellion began. Commotion Times will be doing civilian and military living history as part of the village's Tudor Fete to commemorate the parishioners' refusal of the new English-language Book of Common Prayer. https://www.sampfordcourtenay-pc.gov.uk/node/802
6-7 JUNE, Poundstock Gildhouse, CORNWALL.
Commotion Times return to the beautiful and rare sixteenth-century gildhouse at Poundstock, Cornwall, to commemorate the Cornish rising against the Book of Common Prayer.
27 JULY, FENNY BRIDGES, DEVON.
CommWemorating the first significant battle of the Western Rebellion. Commotion Times will be doing living history as part of a larger event to include a lecture by Prof. Mark Stoyle, author of A Murderous Midsummer, and the unveiling of a new interpretation board produced by the Battlefields Trust. https://www.pastparticipate.co.uk/amurderousmidsummer
2-4 AUGUST, St Nicholas Priory, EXETER, DEVON.
Always one of our most popular events, Commotion Times will be in the magnificent St. Nicholas Priory recreating life in Exeter during the final days of the 1549 siege.
17-18 AUGUST. SAMPFORD COURTENAY, DEVON.
Commotion Times finish the commemorative events with a return to Sampford Courtenay for a living history commemorating the final battle of the rebellion.
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