Welcome to Anakron Living History

Join our community and manage your participation.

• A Join us invitation below Upcoming Events on the homepage links to the online participant registration form.
• Redesigned Participant Info brings personal details, participation fee status, paid-until dates, and application skills and interests together.
• Approved participants can pay their first participation fee or renew an expired paid period through the existing secure payment page.

Statute and guidelines in the participant portal.

• Signed-in participants can view and download the current statute, roles and duties, and reenactment safety guidelines.
• A new navigation tab and Quick Access shortcut make the documents easy to find.

Join Anakron through our website.

• A Join us invitation on About Us and a participant registration link in the footer.
• A simpler skills and interests section, welcoming beginners as well as experienced participants.
• Multiple private document uploads for licences and food certificates.

Participant registration for administrator review.

• A registration form with relevant questions for skills, licences, food roles, health and transport.
• Separate optional media and newsletter choices, with protected application documents.
• Applications remain drafts until reviewed; submitting does not grant military approval or collect payment.

Upcoming events at a glance.

• Automatic event lists on the website and participant portal homepages, with dates, venues and links to full details.
• The next three public events appear below Latest News.
• Participants can see upcoming public and participant-only events, including cancellation and postponement notices, beneath their dashboard.

A consistent look for Events.

• The website Events heading now matches News and Gallery.
• The participant Events page uses the same banner as other portal sections.
• Upcoming and past event buttons are grouped together on both pages.

Clearer event schedules and status updates.

• Separate dates and opening times for each event session, including overnight sessions.
• Time-to-be-announced notices for events or individual sessions.
• Calendar downloads reflect each confirmed session separately.
• More prominent red cancellation and postponement notices.

Events on the website and participant portal.

• Browse upcoming and past events, with dates, venues, photographs and cancellation updates.
• Participants can view private events and preparation instructions after signing in.
• Add upcoming events to Google Calendar or download them for Apple, Outlook and other compatible calendars.
• Calendar downloads include a suggested one-day reminder where supported.

Browse photographs without leaving the story.

• A shared photograph viewer for Explore History articles, News articles and Gallery albums.
• Previous and next controls, an image counter, keyboard navigation and swipe gestures on phones.
• Full photographs displayed without cropping, with captions and credits where available.

A clearer view of Anakron’s activities and participants.

• Refined homepage highlight cards with larger image views and short descriptions.
• Neater participant cards with an automatic slideshow, manual navigation and a pause control.
• Participant profiles open from the whole card, with improved keyboard and mobile navigation.

Explore History: medieval Malta & Europe.

• A new Explore History section for illustrated articles about medieval Malta and Europe.
• Search articles by topic, place or period, and filter by region.
• Readable article pages with image captions, credits and source references.
• Consistent website navigation and footer across the collection and its articles.

Participant Portal page-design and document update.

• Purchase Orders, Participant Invoices and Foundation Finances given a consistent professional design.
• Generated Foundation purchase-order PDFs can now be previewed or downloaded securely.
• Portal navigation reordered and renamed for greater clarity.
• Money in and money out colour-coded, with Foundation finance history limited to 50 entries per page.
• Mobile-only swipe guidance added to wide financial and document tables.

Participant Portal dashboard and navigation update.

• Responsive participant portal navigation with a visible Home button.
• Sales Orders replaced with Foundation Purchase Orders.
• Personalised welcome dashboard with Foundation statistics.
• Quick-access cards and recent financial activity added.
• Mobile layouts and accessible reduced-motion support introduced.

Participant profile presentation update.

• Redesigned participant profiles with a cleaner professional layout.
• Improved photograph, name, role and biography presentation.
• Long biographies can now be scrolled without hiding any text.
• Responsive profile layout added for desktop, tablet and mobile.

Search-engine and social-sharing optimisation.

• Unique page titles and descriptions for all public sections.
• Canonical URLs and clean homepage links added throughout.
• Facebook, Messenger and social-sharing preview metadata added.
• Organisation and news-article structured data added for search engines.
• Published news articles and gallery albums added to the sitemap.

Official public launch of the Anakron Living History website.

• Live homepage with an automatically rotating event-photo carousel.
• News archive with full articles, cover photographs and image viewing.
• About, Gallery, Contact Us, FAQ and Participants' Area sections.
• Editable website content, galleries, participants and FAQs through the administrator area.
• Responsive layouts for desktop, tablet and mobile visitors.