Easter: Medieval Life at Anne of Cleves House

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For two days this spring, Anne of Cleves House will come alive as a working late-medieval household, bustling with the daily tasks, routines and rituals that shaped life behind its timbered walls.

Skilled historical reenactors will transform the house into an immersive living-history experience, portraying the servants, craftsmen and gentlefolk who would once have lived and worked in a residence like this. Rather than preparing for specific visiting dignitaries, the focus this year turns to the everyday rhythms of a medieval home – the practical, the domestic, and the quietly extraordinary.

Visitors are invited to wander freely through the rooms and gardens, discovering scenes of authentic period activity:
• The heat and clamour of a working kitchen
• The duties of household staff
• Crafts and pastimes of the era
• Clothing, food, medicine, and the rituals of daily living

Together, these scenes offer a vivid glimpse into the world of an ordinary but important medieval household, revealing how people lived, worked, and kept a large home running smoothly centuries ago.

This living history weekend promises an engaging and atmospheric journey into the past – a chance to step inside the everyday life of the late Middle Ages.