Getting Medieval in London

Welcome to Thamesreach, the London Shire of the Society for Creative Anachronism! We investigate and re-enact the skills and pastimes of the Middle Ages, including combat, arts and crafts, and much more. We enjoy ourselves while re-creating history.

Indulge your historical hobbies

Recreating the skills and pastimes of the pre-1600s. Want to know more? Drop our Seneschal Duchess Isabel Peregrinus a line! thamesreach.seneschal@gmail.com

Regular Activities

Weekly Armoured Combat, Bi-weekly Social meet ups and Frequent Craft Afternoon More info

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Greetings and welcome to Thamesreach

The London shire of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). We’re a practical history society who regularly get together to try out skills and activities dating from before 1600, while having a jolly good time

Notes & Queries

What kind of activities does the group do? Do I need to have skills and knowledge to join in? We explore lots of crafts and pastimes in workshops and cla...

Recurring Activities

Every month we have several regular activities, from crafting and socialising to armoured combat. Check out our Recurring Activities page to find out what'...

Shire Business Meeting

Thursday 5 September, 6.00pm-7.00pm Open to all members of Thamesreach. We will discuss potentially adding a constitution, using this one from Dun...

Thamesreach at FibreEast

Did you meet us at FibreEast? We hope you had a great time at the event and came away inspired and laden with fibrey goodies. Here’s some more information about...

Flintheath Shire weekend

Thamesreach, mighty though it is, does not exist alone in the principality of Insulae Draconis. To the north lies Flintheath, a shire which can be reached in little time and has many friendly residents, i...

Flaming Arrow XI

A report by Maud de Elsynge… The announcement ran along the lines of:"Hear Ye, Hear Ye, the Shire of Glen Rathlin is proud to announce that it is once more hosting Flaming Arrow. We are running it agai...

Thamesreach on Ice

"...if the moors in Finsbury and Moorfield freeze over, children from London play. Some of the children have attached bones to their ankles, and carry well-worn sticks. They fly across the ice like birds, or we...