Creative History

Viands and Vendors

Victorian Viands and Vendors

Working to Live

Industrialisation enabled the masses to have purchase power whilst bringing its own difficulties. Look at an average working week.

Food for factory Fodder

Cooking methods and implements – learn about the foods available to the ‘working classes’ and explore a typical week's menu.

Five in a Bed!

The census sometimes showed as many as 18 people living in a two up two down terraced house. How did they managed it? Design a terraced house for the modern Victorian working family and their lodgers.

Rags to Rugs

Being thrifty was a necessity for some. Clothes would be handed down until unwearable. Patches from them made quilts, smaller quantities made rugs. Make your own miniature rag rug!

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