Tag: Crafts
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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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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…