The phrase "historical reenactment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a recreation of a historical event or scene, typically featuring people in costume. For example, "The town held a historical reenactment to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle."
This summer, I went to Gucci's museum in Florence, a great big glob of historical reenactment snuggled up against the Palazzo Vecchio.
In his book "Rock Til You Drop" (Verso Books, 2001), the definitive word on the senescent Stones, John Strausbaugh calls them "The Historical Reenactment of the Once-Great Rolling Stones".
Or if Masterchef became a hard-hitting series about a man who has to cook a two-course dinner for a 100-strong historical reenactment society in a field, on time, or else the queen dies?
The fortress is both a serious historical reenactment and an offbeat tourist attraction, allowing the public to watch and chat with workers as they chisel stone, lift blocks with a human-powered hamster-wheel crane, forge tools and chains, and make rope or tiles.
Mr. Berenyi reports that the celebration includes a historical reenactment of the fossil discovery, the introduction of specially labeled beer called Shale Ale, lectures, and the ten-hour-guided walk up a steep mountain to see Walcott Quarry, which is located on a ridge on Mount Wapta.
Unlike earlier controversies concerning the role of empathetic understanding and historical reenactment in the human sciences, current discussions of ST frequently appeal to empirical findings, including experimental results concerning the development of psychological competence in children and recent work in the fields of cognitive and social neuroscience (see Section 4).
Skilfully directed historical reenactments take place around him as the tale unfolds.
This funny commercial for a Swiss photobook service demonstrates the real priorities of those behind historical reenactments.
Privately owned, Shakespeare offers scheduled tours and such historical reenactments as Happy Bob Fambro's fatal barfight and the arrival of travelling showgirls.
Most Saturday mornings, he can be found brewing in the shed; he also plays the role of a brewer in local historical reenactments and is popular on the home-brewing lecture circuit.
Horses are also used in many historical reenactments.
