2020 will be a year to be remembered as a very special year, especially so for the living history communities. While we love getting out and live history on fairs, events and at museums, 2020 had very little of that.

In Spring during the lockdown with cultural institutions and museums bleeding, a spirit of solidarity and desire to help grew. As Denmark was not in a severe enough lockdown to force curfews, living history enthusiasts and reenactors took to the streets near their homes to remind people that museums and culture would need them to come back as soon as it was safe to do so.

It all started in the UK but it soon spread and was spearheaded by Thit Birk Petersen in Denmark by creating a Facebook group and using the existing living history groups to reach out.

Take a walk in your historical outfit – support living history. We live in crazy times and we can not meet and make living interpretation. Many museums and freelancers are bleeding and are affected by the Corona-pandemic. I would like to make awareness of this and therefore I invite you to walk with me – at a distance, where you are at, in your historical costume. So put on a historical suit of your choice and take a walk around your neighbourhood – talk to who ever you meet and give them a history lesson or two. If you have contact to local media – good, but if not, take a picture and use the #wewalkforlivinghistoryThit Birk Petersen in Gå en tur i dit historiske kostume – støt kulturen the Danish Facebook group

In 2021 with a second round of lockdown. We are back in the streets blaffling people and making them smile. This is a fun way of reminding people of the events, museums and culture and a good way of engaging people who may not have a knowledge of living history or history in general.