Tag: Events
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Part 4: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz
This post presents the fourth part of the quiz, based on the fourth 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 sherds of nineteenth-century transfer-printed earthenware were found at Markeaton…
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Were You Right?! Part 3: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz Answers
How did you do with Part 3: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz?! You can share your answers through project social media. This large earthenware dish (alternatively called a ‘platter’ or ‘plate’) was probably used for serving meat or poultry, which, as today, was often caved at the table. Such pottery would’ve been too costly for many…
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Part 3: Finding Festive Feasts Quiz
This post presents the third part of the quiz, based on the third 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. Excavations at Markeaton uncovered numerous sherds of nineteenth-century transfer-printed earthenware.…
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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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How Might We Investigate Industrial-era Ritual and Belief?
Future posts will go into more detail regarding how the project goes about looking for and analysing evidence for folk rites and beliefs. But for now, I’ve outlined a few of the tasks involved in project work. The About page mentions some of the sources examined alongside historic environments and material culture; so here, I’m…
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Public and Corporate Participation
As outlined in the Study Areas post, IF will investigate relevant locations in and around the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site: the cradle of modern industry. Research primarily focuses on two areas in the Georgian and early Victorian town of Derby – which lays claim to the first factory in the world; the nearby industrial…