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Hello all re-enactors, who should by now be polishing up helmets, getting the moths out of cloaks and washing the sticky residue out of horns in preparation for the coming season. 2012 looks like being a great year for DAS, with another 2 events in the calendar in addition to those booked last year. 27-29 [...]

2011 closed with a small but very enjoyable winter adventure on Leith Hill. Despite the countryside being ravaged by plague (that is, everybody and his dog being ill!), we few survivors battled our way to the Tower of Plenty, where we bought orange squash and then did an impromptu display for about 20 passers-by – [...]

DAS’s last event for the year will be at Forest Green in Surrey. We’ll fight on historic Leith Hill – indeed on the very site of the Battle of Leith Hill, way back in the time of Alfred’s father. Wulf and the Westmen will provide us with a fine winter feast, and it’ll be our [...]

The event at South Cadbury was made particularly glorious by the wonderful weather. Read all about it here: . Many thanks to the organisers Hrolf and Morag for all their work, both to plan the event and to make it such a success on the day. The next DAS event is fast approaching, over the [...]

The autumn 2011 Officers’ Meeting will be held at the Flaunden event, on Saturday 5th November 2011. This will be a short meeting slotted in between the fighting and the banquet. The agenda will be fixed and there will be no “any other business”. Matters requiring extensive discussion will have to wait until the full [...]

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the last two DAS events of the year have changed date. Herewulf’s event at Flaunden, Hertfordshire has moved to the 4th-6th November 2011. Wulf’s event at Forest Green, Surrey has moved to the 25th-27th November 2011.

Alf the Archivist has been busy scanning all the old DASmags he’s been able to find – starting with #1 from 1975. And these are now available for you to read as pdf files. Visit the DASmag Archive to read the mags. The Archive is only available to members of DAS, so you will have [...]

DAS has a new style website. Our original website was created by Freyja Eriksdottir, and we owe her many thanks for all her work on it. However it was built using static HTML, and couldn’t take advantage of new Web 2.0-type interactive features. This is the new site and runs on WordPress. WordPress gives us [...]

Three new events have been booked for 2011! All are private society events. We’ll fight hard all day Saturday, and then celebrate either victory or defeat with a banquet in the village hall. South Cadbury,Somerset – 30th September to 2nd October The planned June event was sadly cancelled, but it has been rescheduled and we [...]