HISTORY will be coming to life during the bank holidays at Harvington Hall in Kidderminster.

Over the Easter weekend, the house will be hosting a early Tudor Living History event featuring the hall's re-enactment group, the Harvington Household.

The group will be showing visitors what life was like more than 500 years ago between 11.30am and 4pm on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.

Upstairs in the great chamber, the group's costumes will be made of silk and velvet, with jewels and expensive adornments.

Visitors will be able to enjoy music and watch the performers dance.

Downstairs in the great kitchen and out in the garden, the servants and estate workers will be dressed in clothes made of cotton and wool, providing and preparing food, washing, cleaning and looking after the family of the hall.

On Sunday, May 4 and bank holiday Monday, the focus moves outside to the garden where there will be maypole dancing, an appearance of the hobby horse and green man, who will disrupt the proceedings as much as he can.

Sherida Breeden, the hall manager, said: "Last year’s May holiday was one of the best events of the year with lovely weather and visitors enjoying cream teas on the lawn whilst enjoying the antics of the horse and the green man."

There will be regular guided tours on all four days.

Harvington is a moated medieval and Elizabethan manor-house built in the 1580s.

Many of the rooms still have their original Elizabethan wall-paintings and the hall is famous for its priest hides.

For more information visit harvingtonhall.com