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  • What does the Society do?
  • How to Set Up a Local Group
  • Our Values
  • History Resources
  • Costuming Resources
  • Recreational Time Travel Resources

    • Our Structure

    The Timeslip Society is a UK network of historical enthusiasts. 

    The Time Council
    We take responsibility for the UK Society as a whole. We run the hub blog and calendar advertising everything our local groups do, as well as setting the direction for the Society.
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    Groups
    We oversee an entire area of the country - for example, the Midlands, or Greater London. We run a local hub blog, and keep our community together - welcoming newcomers, and ensuring regular events. We report back to the Time Council, and help them make decisions. 
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    Branches
    When a local Group gains enough members, they will learn what eras, social classes and moments in history their members are most passionate about. If some members of the community develop a shared focus, they may wish to establish a branch: for example, people reconstructing the Edwardian Suffragist movement, the Victorian unwashed, the Pink Ladies, the Decadents, and so on. They act as a group-within-a-Group: organising events and classes around their chosen theme, for the benefit of the whole Group. 
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    Members
    We are what our members do. Bring your passion and skills; try hosting a tea party; reach out to other local groups, and drag along your friends. Everyone has a role to play. We encourage members to take on one (or more) historic "personas" when they are at events, and bring their own research.

    Our Future

    The Timeslip Society presently has three members: me, and two of my mates. We hope to establish something akin to the SCA: charitable status and a real constitution, a community with traditions and titles, its own little world within a world.

    Time travellers know that history is delicate - the flap of a butterfly's wings causes chaos throughout the timeline. So while we have these hopes for the future, we know traditions must be grown organically and be created collectively by the people within a community.

    At present, our goal is to:
    • Set up a network of existing groups and people who enjoy recreating our period for fun, to start connecting people to tea parties as soon as possible
    • Run a local London Group
    • Work with anyone who's excited by the concept of a Timeslip Society to set up a local Group of their own 
    Titles? Awards? A constitution? What about a league of people recreating historic sports or military skills? We're not ready; but if the Society ever becomes home to enough lost voyagers in time, we would like to do such things.

    We might also create sub-networks for people in certain eras of time: early Victorians, late Victorians, Regency and so on.

    Non-Timeslip Events 

    There are already many groups in the UK which do “timeslip-ish” things. We don’t want to absorb, supersede, compete, disgruntle, or discomfort any of these charming people. However, we are very keen to affiliate with them and cross-promote events.

    The Timeslip Society began because I wanted to find like-minded souls, and struggled to find local groups doing this kind of thing. It was fairly easy to find re-enactor groups – professional educators who demonstrate crafts and eras to the public – and historical societies – people who want to attend lectures, days out, and learn more about their passion era. But more challenging to find people who just wanted to play dress-up in the past.

    However, I know there are Steampunk clubs, Austen clubs, motoring groups, as well as individuals such as the Christian family who prefer to live in the past full-time. My hope is that the Society will serve as a networking hub for all these groups and people to find one another: you can list your organisation, and promote events, or leave your name as an individual looking for like-minded friends.

    Outside the UK

    Would you like to set up a Regional branch of the Timeslip Society in your country? Let us know.

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