Tag: Georgian
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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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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…