{"id":13,"date":"2022-07-20T08:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:12:01","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Sir Marmaduke Rawdon\u2019s Regiment of Foote<\/strong>, along with the rest of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecws.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">English Civil War Society<\/a> of which we are a part, aim to portray, as accurately as possible, English Civil War soldiers and their camp-followers and the activities with which they would have been involved during the years 1642\u20131651.\u00a0\u00a0We do this in a number of ways: big battles, smaller skirmishes and \u2018living history\u2019 sites of various sizes, in a variety of venues around the UK \u2013 ideally at historic places, but we\u2019ve been everywhere, from a major town festival based around the battle, to a school fete.<br><br>We portray both military and civilian activities and our Regiment comprises <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/musketeer\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/musketeer\/\" target=\"_blank\">musketeers<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/pike-division\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/pike-division\/\" target=\"_blank\">pike<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/artillery\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/artillery\/\" target=\"_blank\">artillery<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/drums-and-colours\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/drums-and-colours\/\" target=\"_blank\">musicians<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/living-history\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/living-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">campfollowers and civilians<\/a>, as well as officers, active  both on the field and behind the scenes.  <br><br>We extend a warm welcome to anyone who would like to get involved and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/join-us\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/join-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">join us<\/a>.  We are also always keen to hear from any organisations who would be interested in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/hire-us\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/hire-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">booking us<\/a> for an event. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle-624x352.jpg 624w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Battle.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A re-enacted battle from the English Civil War, showing our soldiers in front of an audience.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Marmaduke Rawdon\u2019s Regiment of Foote, along with the rest of the English Civil War Society of which we are a part, aim to portray, as accurately as possible, English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}