Tag: 1820s
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Interactive Guide Quiz Part Two: At the Hall Answers
Points are awarded for each part of the answer, with a total of 55. Let Industrial Folkways know how you’ve done by 28 December through the Quiz Completion questionnaire, and you can download a participation certificate; or share your scores through project social media, to get a shout-out for taking part.
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Interactive Guide Quiz Part One: A Walk in the Park Answers
Points are awarded for each part of the answer, with a total of 30. Let Industrial Folkways know how you’ve done by 28 December through the Quiz Completion questionnaire, and you can download a participation certificate; or share your scores through project social media, to get a shout-out for taking part.
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Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide Quiz Part 2: At the Hall
The second part of the quiz is based on the content of the second section of the Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide: At the Hall. The answers to each question are allocated points, so that groups of families and friends can in they like compete against one another, the highest number winning. The answers…
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Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide Quiz Part 1: A Walk in the Park
The first part of the quiz is based on the content of the first section of the Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide: A Walk in the Park. The answers to each question are allocated points, so that groups of families and friends can in they like compete against one another, the highest number winning.…
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Pickwick in the Park: Cut-out coach card Christmas Craft Activity!
Introduction This activity follows on from the Pickwick in the Park: Seasonal Soundscapes Activity, which explores the auditory environment with particular regard to the location of toll-roads and -gates near and next to Markeaton Park in the 1830s – as discussed in the Interactive Guide. The guide also considered the significance of coach travel at…
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The Story of the Cup: Creative Writing Competition!
Part 2 of the Finding Festive Feasts Quiz briefly mentioned that porcelain cup sherds, dating to the late 1700s, were found during excavations of the stables and stable-yard (in what is now the Craft Village) at Markeaton.* Archaeological evidence (discussed in the Interactive Guide) points towards stable workers living in the loft above the tack…
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Posh Porcelain Art Activities & Christmas Crafts
Part 2 of the Finding Festive Feasts Quiz discussed late 1700s porcelain cup sherds found at Markeaton during excavations of the Craft Village courtyard, in the area of the stables and stable-yard (discussed in the Interactive Guide). As yet, Industrial Folkways hasn’t been able to examine these sherds; so at the moment it’s not possible…
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Were You Right?! Bonus (Part 6): Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Answers
How did you do with Bonus (Part 6): Finding Festive Feasts Quiz?! You can share your answers through project social media. The first object would’ve probably seen much use in the run up to Christmas, and over the season, by many cooks or kitchen maids – including those at Markeaton, and others in comfortably-off households.…
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Were You Right?! Part 5: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Answers
How did you do with Part 5: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz?! You can share your answers through project social media. The internal glaze prevented liquids from seeping through the walls of the vessel. In hot weather, cold water could’ve been applied to the porous exterior of this bowl, to keep the contents cool, as was…
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Bonus (Part 6): Finding Festive Feasts Quiz
This post presents the Bonus part of the quiz, based on the extra (sixth) 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 Part 1 Quiz Post. Many households (though probably not the poorest) in the…