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Live History, this as the project name suggests is to make history come alive. The best way to do this is to re-enact, produce full scaled planes and cockpits.....
People make projects come alive and we re-enact to explore and research possible working models and test them. We engage people at fairs, shows an this website, but most importantly the clubs.
We don’t want to get the cold aspects of the time over, like science and technology, but the emotions and how the generation of the time worked as a team, a system. To tackle this mammoth task we have modeled the system and approach it at different levels and purposes.
1) Timely chats; from interviews we have conducted and by modeling the enterprises that formed the air ministry of the time, we are able then to devise scripts and re-in-act. This allows the current generation to get involved an show to an audience what it was like then. This gives actors the opportunity of getting into specific roles and transferring the feelings, emotions of the time. Examples include two officers in the mess, having a chat about the current mission, two engineer chatting about damage to a plane after a defensive mission.
2) System re-in-actments; these can be done by the volunteers or actually by the audience. One specific one is a mission and mission control, from directive to action. This includes map rooms, to build the current status, setting strategies an tactics.
It can be as simple as people holding hands to form the structure of the system, and for this to be explained and what happened if you did not do your task, in the overall team. This gets across the principle of teamwork and also what happens to the ‘tolerance of the system’ under certain conditions.
We also have handsets and microphones, that allow us to brief and re-enact. Sometimes this is for research reasons, to test data and information about a specific mission, by asking the question ‘what if’ and then seeing the consequences.
3) Using the re-constructed technology, from radio communications to aircraft cockpits. This allows us to explore what it was like under certain conditions and also to allow certain audiences to experience the emotions of carry out a mission.
If you have information about the time, or know anybody that does, have artifacts that can be brought together to reconstruct the past, like the idea of acting in one of the reconstructions, have old uniforms an kit, then click on ‘Making Contact’, the sky's the limit.
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