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We also organise and run Battlefield Tours for clients. Please check out our current tour availability 

NEW TOUR - Haunted Harbour Tour

ADVANCED TICKET BOX OFFICE (Use promotion code nap2009)

Armour through the Ages - Bovington Tank Museum 2005

Picture courtesy of Barry James Wilson

We organise and manage Historical Events throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. If you have a venue and would like us to provide you with a bespoke historical event solution then call or mail us for further information. Please take a look in our Event Archive for a selection of our past clients. We have organised many Events for English Heritage, National Trust, and local councils, as well as for privately owned stately homes, museums, and other historic venues. In 2005 we provided a multiple historical period event at Bovington Tank Museum with the theme of Armour through the Ages - from Roman Centurions to World War 2 Tank Battles! Several bespoke Events for European Union Clients followed, with the Dutch 80 years War (1568 - 1648) event at Bourtange, near Groningen being our greatest achievement overseas - to date! In 2007 we staged two full Medieval Jousts with a full Knights Tourney, both on horse and foot, with a full fayre and medieval battle at Loseley Park, Guildford, and Lulworth Castle, Dorset, Our 2008 season was the busiest yet, with many new Events, including a World War One Event at the National Trust Bateman's property, to provide a Living History experience to present the story of "My Boy Jack" - the acclaimed TV drama about the life of Rudyard Kipling and his family during the Great War. Our Event calendar included our "Pirate Festival" for 6 days during the May Bank Holiday at Lulworth Castle, and the 6 week Medieval Village at the same venue for the summer holidays. The prestigious Salisbury Cathedral 750th Anniversary Medieval Fair was staged in Cathedral Close, much to the delight of many foreign tourists, as well as the local people. Throughout August we were at Portland Castle presenting a cannon firing display for English Heritage. A Regency Period Event was held at Kingston Maurward House, near Dorchester, celebrating Napoleon, Wellington, Jane Austen, and the fictional Rifleman Sharpe. This coming year we will stage the 16th International Napoleonic Fair at the same Dorset venue, and we will be found at many other UK Historical sites, as well as a number of European Events in Belgium, and the Netherlands. So, if you are interested in History, Battles, Medieval Jousts, the age of Napoleon, or just want to learn a little more about where you live, then please contact us and ask for a list of possible solutions to suit any budget.

Event News 

 16th International Napoleonic Fair

For more Event information please browse this website  - or check out www.chooseyourevent.com

We also provide a battlefield tour guide service for various groups and individuals, as well as give talks and live interpretations for schools, clubs, and other societies. We back these up with costumed Interpreters, research, and a small retail service, selling historical books and reproduction maps. New for 2009 is our popular "Haunted Harbour Tour", a ghostly trip into Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Haunted history. So, take a look around our site, and see if you fancy a battlefield tour in Britain, or further away on a foreign field in the Low Countries. Maps from Alison's History of Europe are now available in 3 sizes, showing the Atlas from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Keith Johnston, as well as John Speede 17th Century Maps from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and many Vauban Fortress towns from Rapin's collection of European walled cities.

Take a look and get stuck into history right here!

Pirate Festival     Historical Trading

Our Vision

The Pike And Shot Tour & Event Company believe that to enhance an understanding of History people need to reach out and touch, see, and smell the past!

Our ethos is to provide a tangible and real window into the past through the production and management of Historical Interpretation Events.

We are members of the Federation of Small Businesses, the National Outdoor Events Association and our Tour Guide is a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides

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