About the Society

The Timeslip Society is a practical history society for people interested in recreating the time periods 1800-1970 

We welcome anyone who likes wearing historic reproduction costumes, rediscovering the skills and manners of the past, and playing make believe. Everyone is welcome:

• new sewers, experienced sewers, and people who buy shop costumes
• people who make accurate museum-piece replicas, and people who just like looking and feeling great in historic fantasy costumes
• people who want to come as themselves, people who like making up a kind of persona/character for the day, and people who live full-time in the past
• corsets, circle skirts, chrononauts from any time or place except now

We are not re-enactors: we explore the past for our own enjoyment and curiosity, rather than to educate an audience.

Nor are we roleplayers: we adopt a persona of a person from the past, and take time out from the modern world to live there.

If you enjoy crafts from the past, dressing up, hand-writing letters, growing a fantastic moustache, debating at the club, doing the quadrille, or promenading in the park: welcome, timeslipped traveller! A Georgian day out to Greenwich, 50s milkshake and cinema trips, Blitz parties, a Victorian funeral party at Nunshead Cemetary, a Mrs Dalloway London walk; plus sewing meet ups, movie trips, socials, new friends, and fun.

(If you’re familiar with the SCA, we hope to create the same thing but for a later time period!)