Reenactors and Living History Presenters
Most participants are amateurs who pursue history as a hobby. Participants within this hobby are extremely diverse. The ages of participants range from young children whose parents bring them along to events, to the elderly. Among adult participants, people from all different walks of life can be found: college students, firefighters, lawyers, members of the armed forces, doctors, and even professional historians.
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Famous quotes containing the words living and/or history:
“More than a thousand years it is since she
Was beautiful: she trod the living grass;
She saw the clouds.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)