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Were You Right?! Part 2: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Answers
How did you do with Part 2: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz?! You can share your answers through project social media. Did you know that, in Georgian times, coffee was generally drunk from small, handled, cups, known as ‘cans’; while, until late Georgian times, teacups were made without handles. These ‘tea-bowls’ were paired with deep saucers…
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Part 2: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz
This post presents the second part of the quiz, based on the second display at the Markeaton Park Family Festivities event. The first post in the series (Introduction) provides more information on the activity; and an activity summary provided in the previous Part 1 Quiz Post. Display 2: Posh Porcelain Markeaton excavations uncovered porcelain cup…
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Were You Right?! Part 1: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Answers
How did you do with Part 1: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz?! You can share your answers through project social media. Mixing bowl, used in the kitchen by a cook or kitchen maid, to beat eggs, for example. Various recipes for foods consumed during the Christmas season in late Georgian times incorporated beaten whole eggs, yolk,…
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Part 1: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz
If pots could talk… How might they say ‘Merry Christmas’?! These Georgian and Victorian pots will have seen some seasonal celebrations in their time. But how could they have played their part? Who might have used them – rich or poor; servants or masters? And where – in cottages or country houses; dairies, kitchens or…
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Family Festivities Quiz: Finding Festive Feasts Artefact Activity
*News* Now live: Family Festivities Quiz: Finding Festive Feasts Artefact Activity Part 1: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Part 2: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Part 3: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Part 4: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Part 5: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz & Bonus (Part 6): The last in the ‘What is it?!’ series of the…
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Free Markeaton Park Interactive Heritage Guide and Activities – Pickwick in the Park: A Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas
*News* To be sure not to miss out on new content, check back here soon; sign-up for the mailing list (using the mailing list signup form); or subscribe to social media. New live content (16 December 2024): The final activity relating to the Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide – the related Quiz – rounds…
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And on, and on, and on…
Sometimes what appear to be very simple ‘shows’ take *much* more work than the whistles-and-bells presentations. For instance, the ‘time machine’ (digital!) that I’m making is very shiny and swish, but, although it’s taking quite a while to complete, that’s nothing to the time I’ve been putting in to making figures for comic-strip-style stories, and…
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Website Development
While this website is under construction, the IF Blog will continue in parallel, here. Thanks for your patience.
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All Saints church, Muggington
I recently encountered an inscribed hexafoil (‘Daisy Wheel’) inscription on a church pew (Muggington, near Ashbourne), within the ‘Kniveton’ side chapel (shown below, from the south-east). This was found during research reconnaissance for into another topic, rather than through systematic survey – so I don’t know whether or not there are other examples in and…
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A New Storytelling Folk Figure in the Making!
Here’s a quick clue to the another IF folk figure who’ll soon be joining the team: tiny late Georgian stays (corset)! More soon!