Elaine and Tony Perkins. We are semi- professional actors and have been giving talks for about 20 years to a variety of venues including Historic groups, Battlefield Societies and the W.I.

We present our talks in Medieval costume with a range of objects to help people see life through the eyes of ordinary Medieval men and women. Our talks are lively, informative, amusing, theatrical  and make history come alive.

In the medieval period, clothes not only showed your wealth but could also show your job and even how pious you were, especially for women. The fabric, colour and style showed your status.

Poorer people had a limited wardrobe and so their clothes had to be multi purpose for all weathers. They may not have had the range of fabrics as now but they had a wide variety of colours available to them to brighten up their wardrobe, including yellow and purple.

This talk gives you an insight into the life of medieval people through their everyday clothes and shows that while there were had bad points, no zips, they had some practical ideas that we could learn from today.

If you want to know how Lucy Locket could lose her pocket, then this is the talk for you.